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Biology Questios due 12/4 Sunday before 5

Explain Mendal’s Experimentation with pea plants.
Give examples of a dominant and a recessive trait .  
Draw a punnett square.
Give an example of a homozygous dominant trait, heterozygous trait, homozygous recessive trait.
Give an example of incomplete dominance.
Give an example of complete dominance.

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Biology Vocabulary due by Sunday 12/4

:genetics, heredity, trait, pollination, self-pollination, true breeding, P generation, F1 generation, F2 generation, dominant, recessive, law of segregation,  law of independent assortment, allele, genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous, monohybrid cross, dihybrid cross,

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Anatomy Blogs due 11/18

1. How is arthroscopy used in in treating elbow, shoulder and knee injuries?
2. Explain the difference between rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.
3. What is the most common type of fracture in the elderly?
4.  What is a herniated disc. What are the most common causes?
5. How does the structure of the bone make it strong but yet [...]

November 13th, 2011 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Anatomy Questions due 11/17

1. Distinguish between the axial and appendicular skeletons.
2. What are the parts of the facial skeleton?
3. Explain how an adult skull differ from an infant?
4. Describe the structure of the vertical column.
5. Distinguish between true ribs and false ribs.

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Anatomy Vocabulary due 11/16

axial skeleton
hyoid bone
sacrum
thoracic cage
pectoral cavity
radius
ulna
carpals
phalanges
coxae
tibia
fibia
tarsals
cranim
frontal bone
parieral bones
occipital bones
termporal bones

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Biology Blogs due 11/18

1. If a haploid cell have a chomosomal number of 8, how many chromosomes would be in a diploid cell?
2. How do the end products of  mitosis differ from the end results of meiosis?
3. How does crossing-over relate in your lives?
4. Why is meisosis important in sexual reproduction?
5. In humans, the egg is larger than [...]

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Biology Questions due 11/17

1. Describe the structure of a chromosome.
2. How many chromosomes are in a normal human body cell? How many chromosomes are in a human sex cell?
3. What is the difference between a haploid cell and a diploid cell?
4.  List and describe the parts of  interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis.
5. What are the three major checkpoints at [...]

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Biology Vocabulary due 11/16

Binary Fission
mitosis
asexual reproduction
meiosis
gamete
spindle fiber
cell plate
sexual reproduction

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Biology Blogs due 11/11

1. Explain the differences of how a prokaryotic and a eukaryotic cell divide.
2. What occurs in the final step of cell division?
3. What would happen if cytokinesis took place before mitosis?
4. What would happen if chromosomes did not duplicate before interphase?
5. Why are individual chromosomes more difficult to see duriong interphase than during mitosis?

November 7th, 2011 | Posted in Blog | Read More »

Biology Questions due 11/10

1. name the proteins that DNA wraps around to from a chromosome in eukaryotic cells.
2. How do the structure and location of a prokaryotic chromosome differ from that of a eukaryotic cell?
3. Does chromosome number indicate whether an organism is an animal or plant?
4. Contrast sex chromosomes with autosomes.
5. What is the difference between a [...]

November 7th, 2011 | Posted in Homework | Read More »

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