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TEST BANK for Concepts of Genetics, 12th
Edition by William Klug, Michael
Cummings, Charlotte Spencer
All Chapters 1-26 Covered| Verified Q&As for Exam
Preparation| A+ PASS
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Genetics
1) What is the name of the company or institution that has access to the health, genealogical, and genetic
information of approximately 270,000 residents of Iceland?
A) National Institutes of Health
B) deCODE
C) Gattaca
D) Biogen
E) American Cancer Society Accurate Answer: B
Section: Introduction
2) A biotechnology company, deCODE, is in the process of creating a database that contains.
A) the gene sequences of all newborns in the United States beginning in 2006
B) a compilation of all the known genes in humans throughout the free world
C) health, genealogical, and genetic information of approximately 270,000 residents of Iceland
D) a complete sequence of the human genome
E) all the information available on the human genome project Accurate Answer: C
Section: Introduction
Fr
an
3) Why did deCODE select Iceland for its ambitious research project?
A) a relatively low degree of genetic diversity
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B) frequent and extensive mutational bursts
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C) high genetic diversity
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D) lack of genealogical information
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E) virtual absence of mutation Accurate Answer: A
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4) The genetic material DNA consists of basic subunits called .
A) mitochondria
B) lysosomes
C) centrioles
D) nucleotides
E) None of the answers listed is correct. Accurate Answer: D
Section: 1.3
5) The immediate product of transcription is .
A) a phospholipid
B) an amino acid
C) a protein
D) a carbohydrate
E) RNA
Accurate Answer: E Section: 1.3
6) In many species, there are two representatives of each chromosome. In such species, the characteristic
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number of chromosomes is called the number. It is usually symbolized as .
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A) haploid; n
B) haploid; 2n
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C) diploid; 2n
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D) diploid; n
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E) None of the answers listed is correct. Accurate Answer: C
A
Section: 1.2
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7) Genetics is the study of .
A) heredity and variation
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B) mutation and recession
C) transcription and translation
D) diploid and haploid
E) replication and recombination Accurate Answer: A
Section: 1.2
8) Early in the twentieth century, Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri noted that the behavior of
chromosomes during meiosis is identical to the behavior of genes during gamete formation. They
proposed that genes are carried on chromosomes, which led to the basis of the . Accurate Answer:
Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
Section: 1.2
9) What is a mutation?
Accurate Answer: A mutation is an inherited change in a gene. Section: 1.2
10) What is a simple definition of an allele? Accurate Answer: An allele is a variant form of a gene.
Section: 1.2
Fr
11) Until the mid-1940s, many scientists considered proteins to be the likely candidates for the genetic
material. Why?
an
Accurate Answer: Proteins are the most abundant, universally distributed components in cells.
Because of their great structural and functional diversity, they were considered likely candidates.
kl
Section: 1.2
yn
e
12) Name the individual who, while working with the garden pea in the mid-1850s, demonstrated
quantitative patterns of heredity and developed a theory involving the behavior of hereditary factors.
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Accurate Answer: Gregor Mendel Section: 1.2
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13) What does the term genetics mean?
Accurate Answer: Genetics is a subdiscipline of biology concerned with the study of heredity and
variation at the molecular, cellular, developmental, organismal, and populational levels.
Section: 1.2
14) Name the substance that serves as the hereditary material in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Accurate
Answer: DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid
Section: 1.2
15) Name two individuals who provided the conceptual basis for our present understanding that genes are
on chromosomes.
Accurate Answer: Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri Section: 1.2
16) What term is used to describe the fact that different genes in an organism often provide differences in
observable features?
Accurate Answer: phenotype Section: 1.2
17) A fundamental property of DNA's nitrogenous bases that is necessary for the double-stranded nature
of its structure is .
Fr
Accurate Answer: complementarity Section: 1.3
an
kl
18) Recombinant DNA technology is dependent on a particular class of enzymes, known as
yn
, that cut DNA at specific nucleotide sequences. Accurate Answer: restriction
enzymes
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Section: 1.4
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19) Name the botanist who, in 1900, rediscovered the work of Gregor Mendel. Accurate Answer: Carl
Correns
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Section: 1.2
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20) Genetics is commonly seen as being grouped into several general areas: transmission, molecular, and
population/evolution. Which biological processes are studied in transmission genetics?
Accurate Answer: Mendelian inheritance (segregation and independent assortment), modification of
Mendelian patterns, and pedigree analysis
Section: Introduction and Summary Points
21) Who owns transgenic organisms?
Accurate Answer: Once produced, a patent can be obtained on a living organism, thereby offering
exclusive use of the transgenic organism to the patent holder.
Section: 1.5
22) In 1996, a cloning experiment produced the sheep named Dolly. Contrary to the more traditional
method of cloning by embryo splitting, Dolly was produced by which procedure? Accurate Answer:
nuclear transfer
Section: 1.4
23) What term is applied to a variety of projects whereby genome sequences are deposited in databases
for research purposes?
Fr
Accurate Answer: genomics Section: 1.6
an
24) The first draft of the human genome sequence was reported in 2001 by two groups, the publicly
kl
funded and the private company .
yn
Accurate Answer: Human Genome Project; Celera Corporation Section: 1.6
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25) A number of genomes have been sequenced in recent years: Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces
A
cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and Mus musculus. What are the common
names for these organisms?
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Accurate Answer: bacterium, yeast, roundworm, fruit fly, mouse Section: 1.6, 1.7
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TEST BANK for Concepts of Genetics, 12th
Edition by William Klug, Michael
Cummings, Charlotte Spencer
All Chapters 1-26 Covered| Verified Q&As for Exam
Preparation| A+ PASS
Fr
an
kl
yn
e
A
pl
us
Pa
Page | 1
ss
, Franklyn A Plus Pass
Chapter 1 Introduction to Genetics
1) What is the name of the company or institution that has access to the health, genealogical, and genetic
information of approximately 270,000 residents of Iceland?
A) National Institutes of Health
B) deCODE
C) Gattaca
D) Biogen
E) American Cancer Society Accurate Answer: B
Section: Introduction
2) A biotechnology company, deCODE, is in the process of creating a database that contains.
A) the gene sequences of all newborns in the United States beginning in 2006
B) a compilation of all the known genes in humans throughout the free world
C) health, genealogical, and genetic information of approximately 270,000 residents of Iceland
D) a complete sequence of the human genome
E) all the information available on the human genome project Accurate Answer: C
Section: Introduction
Fr
an
3) Why did deCODE select Iceland for its ambitious research project?
A) a relatively low degree of genetic diversity
kl
B) frequent and extensive mutational bursts
yn
C) high genetic diversity
e
D) lack of genealogical information
A
E) virtual absence of mutation Accurate Answer: A
pl
Section: Introduction
us
Pa
Page | 2
ss
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4) The genetic material DNA consists of basic subunits called .
A) mitochondria
B) lysosomes
C) centrioles
D) nucleotides
E) None of the answers listed is correct. Accurate Answer: D
Section: 1.3
5) The immediate product of transcription is .
A) a phospholipid
B) an amino acid
C) a protein
D) a carbohydrate
E) RNA
Accurate Answer: E Section: 1.3
6) In many species, there are two representatives of each chromosome. In such species, the characteristic
Fr
number of chromosomes is called the number. It is usually symbolized as .
an
A) haploid; n
B) haploid; 2n
kl
C) diploid; 2n
yn
D) diploid; n
e
E) None of the answers listed is correct. Accurate Answer: C
A
Section: 1.2
pl
us
7) Genetics is the study of .
A) heredity and variation
Pa
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B) mutation and recession
C) transcription and translation
D) diploid and haploid
E) replication and recombination Accurate Answer: A
Section: 1.2
8) Early in the twentieth century, Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri noted that the behavior of
chromosomes during meiosis is identical to the behavior of genes during gamete formation. They
proposed that genes are carried on chromosomes, which led to the basis of the . Accurate Answer:
Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
Section: 1.2
9) What is a mutation?
Accurate Answer: A mutation is an inherited change in a gene. Section: 1.2
10) What is a simple definition of an allele? Accurate Answer: An allele is a variant form of a gene.
Section: 1.2
Fr
11) Until the mid-1940s, many scientists considered proteins to be the likely candidates for the genetic
material. Why?
an
Accurate Answer: Proteins are the most abundant, universally distributed components in cells.
Because of their great structural and functional diversity, they were considered likely candidates.
kl
Section: 1.2
yn
e
12) Name the individual who, while working with the garden pea in the mid-1850s, demonstrated
quantitative patterns of heredity and developed a theory involving the behavior of hereditary factors.
A
Accurate Answer: Gregor Mendel Section: 1.2
pl
us
Pa
Page | 4
ss
, Franklyn A Plus Pass
13) What does the term genetics mean?
Accurate Answer: Genetics is a subdiscipline of biology concerned with the study of heredity and
variation at the molecular, cellular, developmental, organismal, and populational levels.
Section: 1.2
14) Name the substance that serves as the hereditary material in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Accurate
Answer: DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid
Section: 1.2
15) Name two individuals who provided the conceptual basis for our present understanding that genes are
on chromosomes.
Accurate Answer: Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri Section: 1.2
16) What term is used to describe the fact that different genes in an organism often provide differences in
observable features?
Accurate Answer: phenotype Section: 1.2
17) A fundamental property of DNA's nitrogenous bases that is necessary for the double-stranded nature
of its structure is .
Fr
Accurate Answer: complementarity Section: 1.3
an
kl
18) Recombinant DNA technology is dependent on a particular class of enzymes, known as
yn
, that cut DNA at specific nucleotide sequences. Accurate Answer: restriction
enzymes
e
Section: 1.4
A
pl
19) Name the botanist who, in 1900, rediscovered the work of Gregor Mendel. Accurate Answer: Carl
Correns
us
Section: 1.2
Pa
Page | 5
ss
, Franklyn A Plus Pass
20) Genetics is commonly seen as being grouped into several general areas: transmission, molecular, and
population/evolution. Which biological processes are studied in transmission genetics?
Accurate Answer: Mendelian inheritance (segregation and independent assortment), modification of
Mendelian patterns, and pedigree analysis
Section: Introduction and Summary Points
21) Who owns transgenic organisms?
Accurate Answer: Once produced, a patent can be obtained on a living organism, thereby offering
exclusive use of the transgenic organism to the patent holder.
Section: 1.5
22) In 1996, a cloning experiment produced the sheep named Dolly. Contrary to the more traditional
method of cloning by embryo splitting, Dolly was produced by which procedure? Accurate Answer:
nuclear transfer
Section: 1.4
23) What term is applied to a variety of projects whereby genome sequences are deposited in databases
for research purposes?
Fr
Accurate Answer: genomics Section: 1.6
an
24) The first draft of the human genome sequence was reported in 2001 by two groups, the publicly
kl
funded and the private company .
yn
Accurate Answer: Human Genome Project; Celera Corporation Section: 1.6
e
25) A number of genomes have been sequenced in recent years: Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces
A
cerevisiae, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and Mus musculus. What are the common
names for these organisms?
pl
Accurate Answer: bacterium, yeast, roundworm, fruit fly, mouse Section: 1.6, 1.7
us
Pa
Page | 6
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