TEST 2 STUDY GUIDE
1) What is the basis for growth and tissue repair?
2) In Mitosis there are ____ parent cells that turn into ___ daughter cells.
3) Are the daughter cells in mitosis identical to the parent cell(s)?
4) What is meiosis used for?
5) In Meiosis there are ___ parent cells that turn into ___ daughter cells?
6) Are the daughter cells in Meiosis identical to the parent cell(s)?
7) What are the reproduction cells in a plant called?
8) What are the reproduction cells in animals called?
9) What is a zygote?
10) Egg and sperm in the human body are the only cells that have what? What do all other cells have?
11) What makes chromosomes?
12) Which occurs in eukaryotes? Mitosis or Meiosis?
13) What are the steps on mitosis?
14) What is the only difference between mitosis and meiosis?
15) Mitosis produces what?
16) Meiosis produces what?
17) Does asexual reproduction occur in mitosis or meiosis?
18) Does sexual reproduction occur in mitosis or meiosis?
19) Somatic cells are what?
20) What are gametes?
21) Put these time periods in order from longest ago to most recent.
Mesozoic, Proterozoic, Archean, Cenozoic, Paleozoic
22) Why did all of the first organisms have to be photosynthetic?
23) Why are the first two time periods eons and the rest eras?
24) Which organism does the human have the closest fossil configuration with?
25) What happens when plate tectonics collide?
26) What is the Theory of Catastrophism?
27) What is the Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics?
28) What is Gregor Mendel’s polymorphism?
29) What is the only source of new alleles?
30) What is morphological divergence?
31) Hominoids are what?
32) Hominids are what?
EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS
1) What the taxonomy names for organisms?
2) What are the modern uses of gene therapy?
3) What are the steps in gene therapy for cholesterol?
