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Who is this?

Rosalind Franklin

A punnett square is used to determine what?

Offspring traits

True or False: Dominant Alleles are represented by lowercase letters

False: They are represented by uppercase letters.

What is a genotype?

The pair of alleles that someone possesses

What is a phenotype?

The actual physical trait that someone's genotype gives them

True or False: Prophase is the last phase of mitosis.

False, it is the first.

List the two main differences between mitosis and meiosis:

1. Meiosis occurs for reproductive cells instead of somatic (body) cells, 2. Meiosis produces twice the amount of daughter cells

True or False: Sexual Reproduction requires only one parent.

False: It requires two parents.

Identify an advantage of sexual reproduction: Fast reproduction, higher offspring production, or genetic diversity

Genetic diversity

True or False: Homologous structures are similarly structured body parts across different species.

True

True or False: Homologous structures must have the same function across different species.

False, they often have different functions across different species.

Who is given credit for coming up with the modern theory of evolution?

Charles Darwin

What is the main idea behind the Theory of Evolution?

Species of organisms adapt and change over time to survive.

Who are the three scientists that took credit for Franklin's discovery of the shape of DNA?

James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins

Name the four bases of DNA and which pair together:

Adenine with Thymine (A-T), and Cytosine with Guanine (C-G)

What is the shape of DNA?

Double Helix