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CHAPTER 2
GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Christine is 5′7″ and has blue eyes. Such directly observable characteristics are called .
A) alleles
B) phenotypes
C) chromosomes
D) genotypes
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
3. Our determine(s) our species and influences all our unique characteristics.
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
B) gamete
C) autosome
D) nucleus
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Protein-coding genes .
A) directly affect our body’s characteristics
B) modify instructions given by regulator genes
C) come in 23 matching pairs
D) are formed through meiosis
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. , which trigger chemical reactions throughout the body, are the biological foundation on
which our characteristics are built.
A) Phenotypes
B) Proteins
C) Carbohydrates
D) Autosomes
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11. Lynn, a Canadian, and Sasha, a Russian, are probably about percent genetically identical.
A) 69.6
B) 79.6
C) 89.6
D) 99.6
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Straightforward comparisons of human and chimpanzee DNA are misleading because .
A) we do not share any of our genetic makeup with primates
B) it takes multiple DNA base pairs to influence human traits
C) the species-specific genetic material responsible for human attributes is extensive
D) the communication system between the cell nucleus and cytoplasm is more intricate in primates
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. A gamete .
A) contains 46 chromosomes
B) is formed through mitosis
C) contains 23 chromosomes
D) is formed when the chromosomes copy themselves
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
16. If a cell donor’s twenty-third pair of chromosomes do not match, the cell .
A) cannot be given to the recipient
B) donor is a female
C) does not have a nucleus
D) donor is male
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Answer: D
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Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
C) zygote
D) allele
Answer: C
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Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: B
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Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Answer: A
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Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
D) an identical twin
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: C
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Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. Patsy and Terry are fraternal twins. This type of twinning results from .
A) a zygote that duplicates and separates into two clusters of cells
B) the fertilization of one ovum by two Y-bearing sperm
C) the release and fertilization of two ova
D) the fertilization of one ovum by two X-bearing sperm
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
30. A zygote that separates into two clusters of cells instead of just one produces .
A) identical twins
B) dizygotic twins
C) triplets
D) triple X syndrome
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
31. Animal research shows that a variety of environmental influences prompt monozygotic twinning,
including .
A) early fertilization of the ovum
B) young maternal age
C) variation in oxygen levels
D) poor diet
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
32. During their early years, children of single births often than twins.
A) develop more slowly
B) are healthier
C) have more shrill cries
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.1 What are genes, and how are they transmitted from one generation to the next?
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
33. In dominant–recessive inheritance, the one allele that affects the child’s characteristics is called
.
A) dominant–recessive
B) dominant
C) recessive
D) a carrier
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. Phil has blond hair. This means that Phil inherited a pair of alleles for hair
color.
A) homozygous; recessive
B) heterozygous; dominant
C) homozygous; dominant
D) heterozygous; recessive
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
35. One well-known recessive disorder is , which affects the way the body breaks down
proteins contained in many foods.
A) Cooley’s anemia
B) cystic fibrosis
C) Tay-Sachs disease
D) phenylketonuria (PKU)
Answer: D
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Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
38. Eric is more likely than his sister to be negatively affected by X-linked disorders because .
A) males are more likely than females to inherit harmful recessive alleles
B) the Y chromosome is much longer than the X chromosome
C) the Y chromosome lacks many corresponding genes to override those on the X chromosome
D) his sex chromosomes match, which makes him more susceptible to disease
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
B) rates of learning disabilities and behavior disorders are higher for girls
C) there has been a dramatic increase in sex-selective abortions
D) the proportion of male births has declined in recent decades
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
40. Children with diabetes tend to have fathers, not mothers, with the illness. The pattern of inheritance is
best explained by .
A) incomplete dominance
B) X-linked inheritance
C) genomic imprinting
D) genetic mutation
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
41. In which disease or disorder does genomic imprinting operate on the sex chromosomes?
A) fragile X syndrome
B) Huntington disease
C) sickle cell anemia
D) Marfan syndrome
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: B
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Answer: A
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
44. In , normal body cells mutate, an event that can occur at any time of life.
A) somatic mutation
B) germline mutation
C) polygenic inheritance
D) genomic imprinting
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
45. Terrace is 6′2″ and weighs 165 pounds, while his brother, Jayquan, is 5′9″ and weighs 210 pounds.
These traits are due to .
A) dominant‒recessive inheritance
B) polygenic inheritance
C) somatic mutation
D) germline mutation
Answer: B
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.2 Describe various patterns of gene–gene interaction.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
A) X-linked disorders
B) mistakes occurring during mitosis
C) mistakes occurring during meiosis
D) recessive disorders
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 2.3 Describe major chromosomal abnormalities, and explain how they occur.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
47. There was a failure of the twenty-first pair of chromosomes to separate during meiosis, so Aziz
received three of these chromosomes rather than the normal two. Aziz has syndrome.
A) XYY
B) Klinefelter
C) Turner
D) Down
Answer: D
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 2.3 Describe major chromosomal abnormalities, and explain how they occur.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
48. About 70 percent of individuals with Down syndrome who live past age 40 show symptoms of
disease.
A) Tay-Sachs
B) Huntington’s
C) Alzheimer’s
D) kidney
Answer: C
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Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 2.3 Describe major chromosomal abnormalities, and explain how they occur.
Topic: Genetic Foundations
Difficulty Level: Easy
49. Which woman is at the greatest risk of bearing a baby with Down syndrome?
A) Gemma, age 15, who lives in a rural community
B) Melina, age 24, who lives with a smoker
C) Ursula, age 33, who was exposed to electromagnetic waves
D) Kay, age 42, who lives in an urban area
Aberden, 114.
Accomack, 113.
Accomintus, 113.
Aggawom, 113.
Air of New England, 29, 98.
Ancocisco, 113.
Ancociscos Mount, 113.
Anmoughcawgen, 113.
Ash trees, 26, 95.
Assurance (ship), 62.
Bahanna, 113.
Barley, 109.
Barties Isles, 114.
Barwick, 113.
Bass, 27, 97.
Bastable, 113.
Beans, 110.
Bears, 26, 95.
Beavers, 26, 95, 119.
Beech trees, 26, 95.
Beecher, Mr., 63, 119.
Berries, 25, 94.
Birch trees, 26, 95.
Birds, 31, 100.
Biscay ship, 65.
Black, Goodman, 76.
Boats, Fishing, 28, 97.
Borley, Capt., 64.
Boston, 113.
Boston (Eng.), 125.
Bows and arrows, 35, 105.
Brass, 35, 105.
Bricks, 23, 91.
Bright, Francis, 53, 54.
Bristow Bay, 113.
Brookelime, 25, 94.
Browne, Mr., 65.
Butter, 111.
Cambridge, 113.
Candles, 32, 102.
Cannon, 37, 60, 108.
Cape Ann, 26, 77, 78, 79, 95, 113.
Cape Cod, 113.
Cape James, 113.
Cape Tragabig sanda, 113.
Carrots, 25, 93.
Carvel, 25, 94.
Cattle, 23, 34, 60, 92, 104, 109, 118.
Cedar trees, 26, 95.
Charles I, 6.
Charles River, 22, 90, 113.
Charlestown, 37, 108.
Chawum, 113.
Cherries, 26, 94.
Cherton, 37, 108.
Chestnuts, 25, 94.
Chevit hills, 113.
Christopher Islands, 65.
Churches of Europe, 41.
Claybrook Parish (Eng.), 6.
Cloth, 25, 94.
Clothing for New England, 30, 100, 111.
Codfish, 27, 96.
Cordage, 25, 94.
Corn, 23, 35, 36, 92, 107, 109, 118, 120.
Cornwall (Eng.), 64.
Cowcastle (Eng.), 62.
Cowes (Eng.), 63.
Crabs, 28, 97.
Cucumbers, 25, 94.
Currants, 25, 94.
Cush, 28, 97.
Cypress trees, 26, 95.
Falmouth, 113.
Fast kept, 67, 71.
Filberts, 25, 94.
Files, 23, 91.
Fir trees, 26, 95.
Fires in New England, 32, 102.
Fish, 27, 96, 121.
Fishing nets, 28, 97.
Force, Peter, 8.
Four Sisters (ship), 60, 125.
Foxes, 26, 95.
Iceberg, 72.
Indians, purchase corn, 24, 93;
dyes used by, 26, 95;
lights used by, 32, 102;
killed by a rattlesnake, 33, 104;
Saggamores of, 34, 104;
number of, 34, 105;
destroyed by the plague, 34, 47, 105;
unable to use all the land, 34, 105;
have no settled places, 34, 105;
personal appearance, 35, 105;
clothing, 35, 105;
weapons, 35, 105;
utensils, 35, 106;
houses, 35, 106;
approve coming of Englishmen, 35, 106;
religion, 36, 106;
language, 36, 107;
title to land, 46;
place names, 113.
Ipswich, 113.
Isle of Wight, 62.
Kenebecka, 113.
Sagadahock, 113.
Sagoquas, 113.
St. Johns towne, 114.
Salem, Landing at, 6;
name, 22, 37, 90, 107, 113;
harbor, 27, 96;
wells, 29, 98;
houses, 36, 37, 107, 108;
number of settlers, 36, 107;
harbor, 79.
Salmon, 27, 97.
Salt, 28, 98.
Saltpeter, 26, 95.
Sandwich, 113.
Sassafras, 26, 95.
Sassanows Mount, 113.
Schools of Europe, 41.
Seasickness, 62, 64.
Segocket, 114.
Sheep, 118.
Ships, 60.
Shuter’s hill, 113.
Sickness, 29, 62, 64, 99.
Skate, 28, 97.
Skelton, Rev. Samuel, 6, 53, 54.
Smallpox, 65, 66, 70, 75.
Smith, Rev., 67.
Smith, Capt. John, 114.
Smith’s Isles, 113.
Snake weed, 33, 104.
Snakes, 33, 103.
Snowdon hill, 113.
Soap ashes, 26, 95.
Soil of New England, 22, 90.
Soldiers, 36, 107.
Sorrel, 25, 94.
Southampton, 113.
Sowocatuck, 113.
Sparke, Michael, 17, 87.
Spices, 112.
Spruce trees, 26, 95.
Squirrels, 26, 95.
Stone, Building, 23, 95.
Storm at sea, 69.
Strawberries, 25, 31, 78, 94, 101.
Sturgeon, 28, 97.
Sumach, 26, 95.
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