Genetics with the Basics of Selection - M.P. Myhun - 2008

CHAPTER II. Material Basis and Molecular Mechanisms of Heredity

Review Questions and Tasks:

1. Explain The Role of The Nucleus and Chromosomes in heredity.

2. Describe chromosomes: Structure, composition, properties, diploid and haploid number, homologous chromosomes.

3. Why is the chromosome an element of the Cell Nucleus capable of self-reproduction?

4. What is the primary and direct material bearer of heredity?

5. What are the genetic differences between Selection/8.html">Asexual and sexual reproduction?

6. Explain the differences in the division of somatic Cells via mitosis, amitosis, and endomitosis.

7. Characterize and explain the biological and genetic significance of mitosis.

8. Describe the specialized meiotic Cell Division and its biological and genetic significance.

9. Discuss the commonalities in The formation of female and male Gametes in animals and plants.

10. Explain the differences in gametogenesis between animals and plants.

11. Characterize the primary, secondary, and tertiary structures of DNA.

12. Explain the role of the Introduction/19.html">Primary Structure of DNA in encoding Genetic information.

13. What is The Essence of Chargaff's rules of equivalence?

14. For what achievement did J. Watson and F. Crick receive the Nobel Prize in 1953?

15. What is the role of RNA, and what types of RNA are involved in METABOLISM/35.html">Protein Biosynthesis?

16. Describe The Essence and Main Properties of The Genetic Code.

17. What are the CHARACTERISTICS OF THE eukaryotic genome?

18. Characterize such molecular genetic processes as Replication, repair, Transcription, Translation, and recombination.



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