ASU BIO 340 Exam 1 Questions and
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selective breeding (artificial selection) -
CORRECT ANSWER: the process of developing organisms with
specific characteristics as chosen by the breeders
QUESTION: Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) -
CORRECT ANSWER: Amateur botanist who published an
explanation of hereditary transmission in plants in 1866. Known for his
pea-plant experiments and commonly referred to as the "father of
genetics"
QUESTION: modern genetics -
CORRECT ANSWER: the study of heredity and the variation of
inherited characteristics
,QUESTION: bacterial transforming principle -
CORRECT ANSWER: an experiment proposed by Frederick Griffith
in 1928 which suggested that a "transforming principle" from a heat-
killed virulent Pneumococcus strain can transform a non-virulent strain
into a pathogenic one.
QUESTION: Avery, McCarty, MacLeod (1944) -
CORRECT ANSWER: biological researchers who identified DNA as
the likely transforming principle in Griffith's experiment.
QUESTION: Hershey and Chase (1952) -
CORRECT ANSWER: concluded that the genetic material of the
bacteriophage was DNA, not protein.
QUESTION: Edwin Chargaff -
,CORRECT ANSWER: Austrian biochemist who discovered that
identical quantities of A and T, C and G were present in DNA
(developed the complementary base-pairing rule for DNA).
QUESTION: Frederick Griffith (1928) -
CORRECT ANSWER: British bacteriologist; the first person to show
that hereditary information could be transferred from one cell to
another horizontally rather than vertically
QUESTION: genome -
CORRECT ANSWER: the complete set of genetic information carried
by a species
QUESTION: vertical transmission -
CORRECT ANSWER: gene transmission between organisms without
parental reproduction
, QUESTION: horizontal transmission -
CORRECT ANSWER: gene transmission from parents to their
offspring through reproduction (aka person-to-person)
QUESTION: DNA replication -
CORRECT ANSWER: the process in which DNA makes a duplicate
copy of itself.
QUESTION: transcription -
CORRECT ANSWER: synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA
template
QUESTION: mRNA (messenger RNA) -
CORRECT ANSWER: a single-stranded RNA molecule that encodes
the information to make a protein
QUESTION: hereditary material -
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selective breeding (artificial selection) -
CORRECT ANSWER: the process of developing organisms with
specific characteristics as chosen by the breeders
QUESTION: Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) -
CORRECT ANSWER: Amateur botanist who published an
explanation of hereditary transmission in plants in 1866. Known for his
pea-plant experiments and commonly referred to as the "father of
genetics"
QUESTION: modern genetics -
CORRECT ANSWER: the study of heredity and the variation of
inherited characteristics
,QUESTION: bacterial transforming principle -
CORRECT ANSWER: an experiment proposed by Frederick Griffith
in 1928 which suggested that a "transforming principle" from a heat-
killed virulent Pneumococcus strain can transform a non-virulent strain
into a pathogenic one.
QUESTION: Avery, McCarty, MacLeod (1944) -
CORRECT ANSWER: biological researchers who identified DNA as
the likely transforming principle in Griffith's experiment.
QUESTION: Hershey and Chase (1952) -
CORRECT ANSWER: concluded that the genetic material of the
bacteriophage was DNA, not protein.
QUESTION: Edwin Chargaff -
,CORRECT ANSWER: Austrian biochemist who discovered that
identical quantities of A and T, C and G were present in DNA
(developed the complementary base-pairing rule for DNA).
QUESTION: Frederick Griffith (1928) -
CORRECT ANSWER: British bacteriologist; the first person to show
that hereditary information could be transferred from one cell to
another horizontally rather than vertically
QUESTION: genome -
CORRECT ANSWER: the complete set of genetic information carried
by a species
QUESTION: vertical transmission -
CORRECT ANSWER: gene transmission between organisms without
parental reproduction
, QUESTION: horizontal transmission -
CORRECT ANSWER: gene transmission from parents to their
offspring through reproduction (aka person-to-person)
QUESTION: DNA replication -
CORRECT ANSWER: the process in which DNA makes a duplicate
copy of itself.
QUESTION: transcription -
CORRECT ANSWER: synthesis of an RNA molecule from a DNA
template
QUESTION: mRNA (messenger RNA) -
CORRECT ANSWER: a single-stranded RNA molecule that encodes
the information to make a protein
QUESTION: hereditary material -
