Genetics Practice Quiz

1. Determination of an individual's blood group

BLOOD TYPING

ANTIGEN

ANTIBODY

2. What is an allele?

A alternative gene

A molecule

A genetic makeup

3. Any large molecule that stimulates the production of specific antibodies or that binds specifically to an antibody

ANTIGEN

ANTIBODY

BLOOD TYPING

4. Genetic constitution of an organism

Genotype

Phenotype

Self fertilization

5. A cross of an individual of unknown genotype, usually expressing the dominant phenotype, with a homozygous recessive individual in order to determine the genotype of the unknown individual.

TRIHYBRID CROSS

TEST CROSS

DIHYBRIDS

6. Specific place on a chromosome where a gene is located

Locus

P generation

Zygote

7. States that genes for different traits assort independently of one another in the production of gametes?

MENDEL’S SECOND LAW: THE PRINCIPLE OFINDEPENDENT ASSORTMENT

MENDELS THIRD LAW OF GENETICS

MENDEL’S FIRST LAW, THE PRINCIPLE OFSEGREGATION:

8. No two individuals – except identical twins – have exactly the same genome

DNA Typing

Gene Therapy

DNA Molecular Testing

9. The situation in which the heterozygote exhibits the phenotypes of both homozygotes.

CODOMINANCE

INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE

COMPLETE DOMINANCE

10. Nucleotide polymorphism single bp change at site RFLP 3of 3 classes of DNA polymorphism

SNP

TRP

STR

11. Have one arm longer than the other?

Submetacentric

Telocentric

Metacentric

12. A protein molecule that recognizes and binds to a foreign substance introduced into the organism.

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

ANTIGEN

ANTIBODY

13. Individuals with blood group AB are UNIVERSAL RECIPIENTS

BLOOD TYPING

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

ANTIBODY

14. The case in which one allele is dominant to the other so that at the phenotypic level the heterozygote is indistinguishable from the homozygous dominant.

COMPLETE RECESSIVENESS

INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE

COMPLETE DOMINANCE:

15. Variable Number of Tandem Repeats- are also called minisatellites from 7 to a few tens of base pairs long and are repeated tandemly.

RFLP

SNP

VNTR

16. Has one arm with a stalk, and often with a bulb this a what?

Telocentric

Acrocentric

Submetacentric

17. Is a plasmid vector that has a promoter for an RNA polymerase just upstream of the multiple cloning site.

PCR cloning vectors

Transcribable vectors

Non plasmid vector

18. Modified genetically to prevent a genetic defect in the offspring. Individual's mutant cell is taken, Normal wild-type copies of the mutant gene are reintroduced into the individual.

Germ Line Therapy

Somatic Cell Therapy

Gene Therapy

19. Is a cloning vector containing the necessary regulatory sequences to allow transcription and translation of a cloned gene or genes. EX: pharmaceutically active proteins by expression vectors pharmaceutically active proteins by expression vectors

Transcribable vectors

Non plasmid vector

Expression vector

20. Vector that can be introduced into two or more different host organisms and maintained by either of these organisms EX: Artificial yeast chromosome (YAC)

EXPRESSION VECTORS

SHUTTER VECTORS

PHAGE VECTORS

Genetics Practice Quiz

1. Determination of an individual's blood group

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. What is an allele?

3. Any large molecule that stimulates the production of specific antibodies or that binds specifically to an antibody

4. Genetic constitution of an organism

5. A cross of an individual of unknown genotype, usually expressing the dominant phenotype, with a homozygous recessive individual in order to determine the genotype of the unknown individual.

6. Specific place on a chromosome where a gene is located

7. States that genes for different traits assort independently of one another in the production of gametes?

8. No two individuals – except identical twins – have exactly the same genome

9. The situation in which the heterozygote exhibits the phenotypes of both homozygotes.

10. Nucleotide polymorphism single bp change at site RFLP 3of 3 classes of DNA polymorphism

11. Have one arm longer than the other?

12. A protein molecule that recognizes and binds to a foreign substance introduced into the organism.

13. Individuals with blood group AB are UNIVERSAL RECIPIENTS

14. The case in which one allele is dominant to the other so that at the phenotypic level the heterozygote is indistinguishable from the homozygous dominant.

15. Variable Number of Tandem Repeats- are also called minisatellites from 7 to a few tens of base pairs long and are repeated tandemly.

16. Has one arm with a stalk, and often with a bulb this a what?

17. Is a plasmid vector that has a promoter for an RNA polymerase just upstream of the multiple cloning site.

18. Modified genetically to prevent a genetic defect in the offspring. Individual's mutant cell is taken, Normal wild-type copies of the mutant gene are reintroduced into the individual.

19. Is a cloning vector containing the necessary regulatory sequences to allow transcription and translation of a cloned gene or genes. EX: pharmaceutically active proteins by expression vectors pharmaceutically active proteins by expression vectors

20. Vector that can be introduced into two or more different host organisms and maintained by either of these organisms EX: Artificial yeast chromosome (YAC)