BIO 182 Exam 1-ASU Questions And Answers With Verified Tests

a characteristic of an organism that varies genetically - Answer-trait a description of an organism's appearance or behavior - Answer-phenotype a form of a gene that affects the way an organism looks or behaves - Answer-allele a hapliod cell that develops into a sperm or an egg - Answer-gamete a highly condensed molecule of DNA that codes for many proteins - Answer-chromosome a linear sequence of DNA that codes for a certain protein - Answer-gene a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides the most precise description of a hypothesis? - Answera place on a chromosome where a certain gene occurs - Answer-locus a process in which a diploid cell produces four haploid cells - Answer-meiosis a process in which a diploid cell produces two diploid cells - Answer-mitosis a well designed experiment... - Answer-controls for environmental and genetic factors, involves replications of experimental subjects, and randomizes experimental subject among treatments an error in the sequence of nucleotides when copying DNA - Answer-mutation estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population - Answer-heritabilityevolution by natural process - Answer-natural evolution evolution guided by god - Answer-theistic evolution how many species live in planet Earth? - Answer-unknown-roughly 3 to 5 million species created by God - Answer-creation the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic-evolves naturally via natural selection through random mutation - Answer-antibiotic resist