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Biology
Sexual Life Cycles and Meiosis:
Circle the correct answer:

1) If a horticulturist breeding gardenias succeed in having a single plant with a particularly

desirable set of traits, which of the following would be her most probable and efficient route to
establishing a line of such plants?

B) Breed this plant with another plant with much weaker traits

C) Clone the plant asexually to produce an identical one

D) Force the plant to self-pollinate to obtain an identical one

2) The human genome is minimally contained in which of the following?

A) Every human cell

B) Each human chromosome

C) The entire DNA of a single human

D) The entire human population

E) Each human gene

3) In the human species, all somatic cells have 46 chromosomes. Which of the following can also
be true?

A) A plant species (privet shrubs) has 46 chromosomes per cell

B) Some adult humans have 69 chromosomes per cell

C) Some adult humans have 23 chromosomes per cell

D) A certain fungal species has only one chromosome per cell

E) A certain bacterial species has 23 chromosomes

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4) Which of the following is a true statement about sexual vs. asexual reproduction?

A) Asexual reproduction, but not sexual reproduction, is characteristic of plants and fungi

B) In sexual reproduction, individuals transmit 50% of their genes to each of their offspring.

C) In asexual reproduction, offspring are produced by fertilization without meiosis.

D) Sexual reproduction requires that parents be diploid.

E) Asexual reproduction produces only haploid offspring.

5) Which of the following defines a genome?

A) Representation of a complete set of a cell's polypeptides

B) The complete set of an organism's polypeptides

C) The complete set of a species' polypeptides

D) A karyotype

E) The complete set of an organism's genes

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6) At which stage of mitosis are chromosomes usually photographed in the preparation of a

karyotype?
A) Prophase
B) metaphase
C) anaphase
D) telophase
E) interphase

7) The human X and Y chromosomes

A) Are both present in every somatic cell of males and females alike

.B) are of approximately equal size and number of genes.

C) Are almost entirely homologous, despite their different names.

D) Include genes that determine an individual's sex.

E) Include only genes that govern sex determination.

8) Which of the following is true of a species that has a chromosome number of 2n = 16?

A) The species is diploid with 32 chromosomes per cell.

B) The species has 16 sets of chromosomes per cell.

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C) Each cell has eight homologous pairs.

D) During the S phase of the cell cycle there will be 32 separate chromosomes.

E) A gamete from this species has four chromosomes.

9) Eukaryotic sexual life cycles show tremendous variation. Of the following elements, which do
all sexual life cycles have in common?

I. Alternation of generations

II. Meiosis

III. Fertilization

IV. Gametes

V. Spores

A) I, IV, and V
B) I, II, and IV
C) II, III, and IV
D) II, IV, and V
E) I, II, III, IV, and V

10) Which of these statements is false?

A) In humans, each of the 22 maternal autosomes has a homologous paternal chromosome.

B) In humans, the 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, determines whether the person is female (XX) or
male (XY).

C) Single, haploid (n) sets of chromosomes in ovum and sperm unite during fertilization, forming a
diploid (2n), single celled zygote.

D) At sexual maturity, ovaries and testes produce diploid gametes by meiosis.

E) Sexual life cycles differ with respect to the relative timing of meiosis and fertilization.

11) Referring to a plant's sexual life cycle, which of the following terms describes the process
that leads directly to the formation of gametes?

A) Sporophyte meiosis

B) Gametophyte mitosis

C) Gametophyte meiosis

D) Sporophyte mitosis

E) Alternation of generations

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12) Which of the following is an example of alternation of generations?

A) A grandparent and grandchild each have dark hair, but the parent has blond hair.

B) A diploid plant (sporophyte) produces, by meiosis, a spore that gives rise to a multicellular,
haploid pollen grain (gametophyte).

C) A diploid animal produces gametes by meiosis, and the gametes undergo fertilization to produce a
diploid zygote.

D) A haploid mushroom produces gametes by mitosis, and the gametes undergo fertilization, which is
immediately followed by meiosis.

E) A diploid cell divides by mitosis to produce two diploid daughter cells, which then fuse to produce
a tetraploid cell.

13) The karyotype of one species of primate has 48 chromosomes. In a particular female, cell
division goes awry and she produces one of her eggs with an extra chromosome (25). The most
probable source of this error would be a mistake in which of the following?

A) Mitosis in her ovary

B) Metaphase I of one meiotic event

C) Telophase II of one meiotic event

D) Telophase I of one meiotic event

E) Either anaphase I or II

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14) A given organism has 46 chromosomes in its karyotype. We can therefore conclude which of
the following?
A) It must be human.
B) It must be a primate.
C) It must be an animal.
D) It must be sexually reproducing.
E) Its gametes must have 23 chromosomes.

15) A triploid cell contains three sets of chromosomes. If a cell of a usually diploid species with
42 chromosomes per cell is triploid, this cell would be expected to have which of the following?

A) 63 chromosomes in 31 1/2 pairs

B) 63 chromosomes in 21 sets of 3

C) 63 chromosomes, each with three chromatids

D) 21 chromosome pairs and 21 unique chromosomes.

16) A karyotype results from which of the following?

A) A natural cellular arrangement of chromosomes in the nucleus

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B) An inherited ability of chromosomes to arrange themselves

C) The ordering of human chromosome images

D) The cutting and pasting of parts of chromosomes to form the standard array

E) The separation of homologous chromosomes at metaphase I of meiosis

17) Which of the following best describes a karyotype?

A) A pictorial representation of all the genes for a species

B) A display of each of the chromosomes of a single cell

C) The combination of all the maternal and paternal chromosomes of a species

D) The collection of all the chromosomes in an individual organism

E) A photograph of all the cells with missing or extra chromosomes

18) If a cell has completed the first meiotic division and is just beginning meiosis II, which of the
following is an appropriate description of its contents?

A) It has half the amount of DNA as the cell that began meiosis.

B) It has the same number of chromosomes but each of them has different alleles than another cell
from the same meiosis.

C) It has half the chromosomes but twice the DNA of the originating cell.

D) It has one fourth the DNA and one half the chromosomes as the originating cell.

E) It is identical in content to another cell from the same meiosis.

19) Which of the following can utilize both mitosis and meiosis in the correct circumstances?

A) A haploid animal cell

B) A diploid cell from a plant stem

C) Any diploid animal cell

D) A plantlike protist

E) An archaebacterial

20) Which of the following might result in a human zygote with 45 chromosomes?

A) An error in either egg or sperm meiotic anaphase

B) Failure of the egg nucleus to be fertilized by the sperm

C) Fertilization of a 23 chromosome human egg by a 22 chromosome sperm of a closely related

species

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D) An error in the alignment of chromosomes on the metaphase plate

E) Lack of chiasmata in prophase I

Figure 13.2 of a single pair of homologous chromosomes as they might appear during various
stages of either mitosis or meiosis

21) Which diagram represents anaphase I of meiosis?

A) I
B) II
C) IV
D) V
E) VI

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Figure 13.2 of a single pair of homologous chromosomes as they might appear during various
stages of either mitosis or meiosis

22) Which diagram(s) represent anaphase II of meiosis?

A) II only
B) III only
C) IV only
D) V only
E) either II or V

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You have isolated DNA from three different cell types of an organism, determined the relative
DNA content for each type, and plotted the results on the graph shown in Figure 13.3. Refer to
the graph to answer the following questions.

21) Which sample of DNA might be from a nerve cell arrested in G0 of the cell cycle?
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) either I or II
E) Either I or III

You have isolated DNA from three different cell types of an organism, determined the relative
DNA content for each type, and plotted the results on the graph shown in Figure 13.3. Refer to
the graph to answer the following questions.

22) Which sample might represent an animal cell in the G2 phase of the cell cycle?
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) both I and II E) either II or III

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You have isolated DNA from three different cell types of an organism, determined the relative
DNA content for each type, and plotted the results on the graph shown in Figure 13.3. Refer to
the graph to answer the following questions.

23) Which sample might represent a zygote?

A) I
B) II
C) III
D) Either I or II
E) Either II or III

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