Chanda Davis » Homework

Anatomy Questions due Sunday 1/29 by 5:00

chanda — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:06 +0000

1. What is the function of the medulla?

2. What is the function of the cerebellum?

3. What is the function of the olfactory bulb

4. What is the function of the optic chiasm?

5. What is the function of the corpus collosum?

Biology Questions due 1/29 by 5:00

chanda — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:58:03 +0000

1. What is the purpose of DNA transcription?

2. What is the purpose of DNA Transcription?

3. What is the purpose of RNA polymerase?

4. What is made when RNA polymerase breaks off of DNA?

5. What happens to the DNA when polymerase breaks off?

Anatomy Questions due Sunday 1/22

chanda — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:48:12 +0000

1. Explain the process of a nerve impulse.

2. Explain the reaction of the nervous system when you burn your finger on a hot pot.

3. What is a reflex arc?

4. Name some types of sensory receptors?

5. Give some examples of the autonomic reflexes.

Biology Questions due by Sunday 1/22

chanda — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:35:39 +0000

1. Explain the process of transcription in DNA.

2. What enyme attaches nucleotides to the origninal strand of DNA?

3. What enzyme comes along and unzips the DNA strand in the process of replication?

4. Name the main differences of DNA and RNA?

5. Explain the process of m-RNA in the process of making proteins.

Biology Questions 1/12

chanda — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:57:58 +0000

1. What is the pupose of DNA?

2. Name the parts of a nucleotide and what is the purpose?

3. Why is so easy to break DNA strands, mwhat type of bonds hold the nitorgen bases together?

4. What would be the complementary strand for the following:

CTCGATCGGT

5. What does Chargaff’s rule state?

Anatomy Questions due 1/12

chanda — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:53:56 +0000

1. What are the two subdivisions of the nervous system?

2. List the characteristics of the sensory or afferent division of the nervous system and the motor or efferent division.

3. List the funtions of the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. Give examples of each.

4. Name and list the functions of the nerons.

5. Explain the process of the nerve impulse:resting potential. depolarization, popagation of the action potential, and repolarization.

Biology Questios due 12/4 Sunday before 5

chanda — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:28:53 +0000

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.

Anatomy Questions due 11/17

chanda — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:19:45 +0000

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.

Biology Questions due 11/17

chanda — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:39:58 +0000

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 which the cell cycle is controlled?

Biology Questions due 11/10

chanda — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:51:03 +0000

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 haploid and a diploid cell?