Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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5. 50/50 Fifty - Fifty • You’ve asked that two of the wrong answers be eliminated, leaving you with one wrong answer plus the correct one. Return to the Question

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8. Parents passing ___________ to offspring is called __________. 50/50 Traits, mitosis Traits, heredity A B Skills, mitosis Chemicals, heredity C D

9. What determines an organism’s characteristics? 50/50 Only the environment Only heredity A B Only heredity and the environment Heredity, the environment and learning C D

10. Which of the following is an example of a learned trait? 50/50 The size of your muscles Superior athletic ability A B Superior athletic performance The power of your muscles C D

11. Which of the following are examples of asexual reproduction? 50/50 Pollination, mitosis, and from body parts Budding, spore formation, and meiosis A B Mitosis, budding, and spore formation Pollination, meiosis, and from body parts C D

12. When fishers caught sea stars, they cut them into pieces and threw them back into the water. The fishers later saw that the sea stars reproduced and made many new sea stars. How did the sea stars reproduce? 50/50 Asexually, from body parts Asexually, by budding A B Sexually, by budding Sexually, from body parts C D

13. How can you determine the kind of organism a cell belongs to? 50/50 By comparing the cell’s size with the size of the organism By studying the cell’s function A B By comparing the cell’s shape with the shape of the organism By studying the cell’s DNA C D

14. What is the relationship between a species’ number of chromosomes and the sizes of individual organisms? 50/50 As the number of chromosomes increases, size decreases As the number of chromosomes increase, size increases A B There is no relationship? It depends on how may genes each chromosome contains C D

15. What happens when DNA “unzips”? 50/50 The base pairs come apart One base replaces another A B The base pairs change partners One base hops to the other side of the DNA ladder C D

16. What process produces sex cells? 50/50 splitting mitosis A B fertilization meiosis C D

17. What is the Human Genome Project doing? 50/50 Creating a clone of the human chromosome Mapping all the genes on a human chromosome A B Changing the human chromosome to erase all diseased genes Determining which mutations cause diseases C D

18. During fertilization, the first cell of a new organism is called _______ 50/50 A zygote A sex cell A B An egg cell A sperm cell C D

19. In which part of a flowering plant does fertilization occur? 50/50 The stamen The pistil A B The pollen tube The ovules C D

20. A male dog is purebred for the dominant trait of a black coat. A female dog is purebred for the recessive trait of a white coat. What color coat will their offspring have? 50/50 White Black A B Gray Half will be black, half will be white C D

21. An organism with one dominant and one recessive version of a trait is called a _________. 50/50 hybrid zygote A B mutant purebred C D

22. If a dog has 78 chromosomes, how may chromosomes will it’s sperm cell have? 50/50 78 39 A B 156 49 C D