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If a tetraploid with 28 chromosomes: 4N=28 chromosomes. A hexaploid has how many chromosomes? correct answers 42, 6N=42 When an organism gains or loses one or more chromosomes but not a complete haploid set correct answers Aneuploidy Hershey and Chase experiment offered evidence in support of DNA being genetic material. This made use of these radioactively labeled components: correct answers Phosphorous (DNA) and sulfur (proteins) Griffith's transforming element was DNA was the major conclusion of who's experiment? correct answers Hershey and Chase If the transforming element described by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty had been RNAse sensitive, this would have indicated that ___ was the genetic material correct answers RNA (RNAse destroys RNA) Cultivated American cotton is thought to have arisen from a _____ event correct answers Allopolyploidy The salivary glands of water gliders often contain cells with thousands of chromosomes. This condition is termed ____ correct answers endopolyploidy Metacentric chromosomes are frequently formed from two acrocentric chromosomes by the process of _____ correct answers centric fusion In two point mapping, the presence of both dominant alleles on one homolog is termed ____ correct answers coupled configuration (AA, repulsed Aa)

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Genetics old final questions || with Complete Solution.


If a tetraploid with 28 chromosomes: 4N=28 chromosomes. A hexaploid has how many
chromosomes? correct answers 42, 6N=42


When an organism gains or loses one or more chromosomes but not a complete haploid set
correct answers Aneuploidy


Hershey and Chase experiment offered evidence in support of DNA being genetic material. This
made use of these radioactively labeled components: correct answers Phosphorous (DNA) and
sulfur (proteins)


Griffith's transforming element was DNA was the major conclusion of who's experiment? correct
answers Hershey and Chase


If the transforming element described by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty had been RNAse
sensitive, this would have indicated that ___ was the genetic material correct answers RNA
(RNAse destroys RNA)


Cultivated American cotton is thought to have arisen from a _____ event correct answers
Allopolyploidy


The salivary glands of water gliders often contain cells with thousands of chromosomes. This
condition is termed ____ correct answers endopolyploidy


Metacentric chromosomes are frequently formed from two acrocentric chromosomes by the
process of _____ correct answers centric fusion


In two point mapping, the presence of both dominant alleles on one homolog is termed ____
correct answers coupled configuration (AA, repulsed Aa)

,In chromosome location studies with fruit flies, females are normally selected as the
heterozygous parent. This is because.... correct answers crossing over is inhibited in male fruit
flies.


Trisomy 21 is commonly called correct answers Down's Syndrome


Monosomy X is commonly called correct answers Turner's Syndrome


Cri-du-chat is a correct answers terminal deletion


Triploidy is represented by... correct answers 3N


Monoploidy is represented by.... correct answers N


2n+3 is called a correct answers Pentasomy


Centromere involved correct answers pericentric


No centromere involved correct answers paracentric


XXXX represents a... correct answers tetrasomy


4N represents a.... correct answers tetraploidy


Dominant in males, recessive in females. correct answers Sex influenced


Human color blindess is an example of a ..... trait correct answers sex linked

, X and Y are.... correct answers sex chromosomes


Chromosomes that don't differ between the sexes correct answers autosomes


the time during mitosis when sister chromatids separate correct answers anaphase


haploid cells specialized for reproduction correct answers gametes


one of the identical halves of a replicated chromosome correct answers chromatid


Any variation in chromosome number that does not involve whole sets of chromosomes is
termed.... correct answers aneuploidy


A theoretical measure of the number of independent genomic units that would be represented in
or contribute to the next gene pool is termed... correct answers effective population size


The most extreme form of inbreeding possible in sexually reproducing organisms is: correct
answers self fertilization


familial down's syndrome is caused by a chromosome..... correct answers translocation


Improvement of humans through selective breeding was originally termed.... and used by Hitler
correct answers Eugenics


Hardy weinberg equilibrium cannot have a genotypic frequency of the heterozygotes greater
that..... correct answers .5


endopolyploidy is a condition often observed in correct answers liver cells, water gliders

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