Biology Final Studyguide

Review for Second Semester Final Exam

  1. What is cell division? Mitosis?
  2. What is the product of cell division?
  3. What is the cell cycle?
  4. What is cytokinesis?
  5. What happens during interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase?
  6. What is the difference between mitosis and cytokinesis?
  7. What are the phases of interphase and what happens during each phase?
  8. What is the spindle, chromatid, centromere and chromatin?
  9. Who was Gregor Mendel? What type of plants did he study?
  10. What does the terms, P1, (Filial) F1 and F2 generations mean?
  11. What is the difference between self pollination and cross pollination?
  12. What is the difference between recessive and dominant alleles?
  13. How are the principles of probability related to predicting the traits of an offspring produced by genetic crosses?
  14. What are genes? Alleles?
  15. What is a Punnett Square?
  16. What is the difference between monohybrid and dihybrid crosses?
  17. What is the:
              i. Principle of Dominance
            ii. Principle of Segregation
            iii. Principle of Independent Assortment
  18. What is the difference between phenotype and genotype?
  19. What is incomplete dominance?   Codominance?
  20. What is the difference between diploid and haploid?
  21. The number of chromosomes in a gamete is :   n or 2n?
  22. What are gametes?
  23. What are the sex chromosomes of a human female?   Human male?
  24. What letter is used to indicate the number of chromosomes in a gamete?
  25. What is meiosis?
  26. What is the product of meiosis?
  27. What are the phases of meiosis and what happens during each phase?
  28. What is crossing over? Independent assortment?
  29. What is a pedigree?
  30. What are Watson and Crick credited with?
  31. Where is DNA located in eukaryotes? Prokaryotes?
  32. What is DNA replication?
  33. What is meant by base pairing?
  34. What are the sugars in DNA and...