Exam 2:  Review sheet

Chapter 4, part 2

What diseases are trinucleotide repeat diseases?

How are these diseases passed on? 

What nucleotides get repeated?

What is anticipation?

What is imprinting?

What diseases result from imprinting?

How is imprinting different from X linked diseases?

What are X-linked recessive diseases?

Give an example of an X-linked disease or trait.

Explain how transmission is different depending on which parent passes on the disease.

Be able to do Punnett squares with X-linked diseases or traits.

Chapter 7

Know distinguishing features for the different model organisms:

Chlamydomonas

Plants

C. elegans

Insect Lygaeus turicus

Protenor insect

Drosophila

Behavior

Know the difference between transgenic and knockout mice.

What are some advantages and disadvantages?

Be able to recognize pictures of the different behavioral equipment.

How does the different equipment work and what does it test for?

Chapter 8

What are the different monosomies and trisomies that can occur?

Which is more severe sexual chromosomal abnormalities or abnormalities of the autosomes?

Be able to write the different chromosomal designation for the different chromosomal abnormalities.

Know table 8.1 and be able to write chromosome designations if there are extra chromosomes or extra SETS of chromosomes.

What are Barr bodies?  How many are present in people with different chromosomal abnormalities?

What is the difference in problems that result from meiosis I compared to meiosis II?

What is different between the X and Y chromosomes?  What is the same?

Know the different mutations that can occur on a chromosome?  Be able to draw these.

Duplication (tandem, reverse tandem, terminal tandem), deletion, paracentric inversion, pericentric inversion, translocation

What is chronic myelogenous leukemia?

Chapter 10

Part 1: 

Know the experiments of Griffith, Avery and Hershey and Chase.

What did they do, how did they do it, and what did the results mean?

What makes up a virus?

How are DNA and RNA viruses different?

Part 2: 

Be able to number a purine and a pyrimidine.

Be able to identify which nitrogen from a purine and a pyrimidine binds to the sugar ring.

Know what binds to the different positions on the sugar.

Be able to recognize the structure of all of the different bases.

Be able to indicate where and how many hydrogen bonds form between two bases.

If you are told the number of bases that you have, be able to determine the length of the DNA (without a calculator).

            Be able to convert from nm to mm.