exam

Ch. 8

What is binary fission?

Know mitosis and meiosis events (differences between these two processes and end results).

Understand events occur during prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis.

Understand synapsis and recombination event in meiosis (when do sister chromatids separate in meiosis and in mitosis?).

Know the importance of mitosis and meiosis (big picture)

Understand independent assortment/orientation and random fertization.

Understand how anchorage, cell density, and growth factors affect cell division.

Cell cycle control checkpoints.

Cancer development (benign and malignant tumors, metastasis, leukemia, carcinomas, etc…)

Understand the following terms: Somatic cells, homologous chromosomes, locus, allele, autosomes, chromosomes, gametes, haploid, diploid, zygote.

Understand synapsis, tetrads, chiasma, and recombination (crossing over).

What is karyotyping and nondisjunction?

Alterations of chromosome structure (deletion, duplication, inversion, reciprocal translocation)

Ch. 9

Be able to do a monohybrid and a dihybrid cross as shown in textbook.

Know following terms: P generation, F1, F2, homozygous, heterozygous, recessive and dominant alleles, test cross, carrier, linked genes, recombination frequency.

Understand independent assortment and law of segregation.

Understand rules of probability.

Be able to analyze a family pedigree for autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked dominant, and X-linked recessive.

Understand incomplete dominance and codominance (blood types)

Pleiotropy and polygenic inheritance.

Nature vs. nurture

Genetic testing

Sex-linked genes, sex chromosomes.