Biotechnology and Society Midterm Practice Test

What is the product of meiosis?

Two identical daughter cells

Two different daughter cells

Four identical daughter cells

Four different daughter cells

What is the product of mitosis?

Two identical daughter cells

Two different daughter cells

Four identical daughter cells

Four different daughter cells

At what phase in mitosis do the chromosomes line up along the cell equator?

Prophase

Metaphase

Anaphase

Telophase

A cancer that has lost anchorage dependence and entered the bloodstream is refered to as ________?

Benign

Metastasized

What does aiolos do?

Increase a cell's reproductive ability

Speed up the cell process

Promotes anchorage independence

Causes a somatic mutation

Which of the following type of mutation will not have an effect on expressed protein?

Silent mutation

Deletion/insertion

Nonsense mutation

Missense mutation

Which of the following is an example of an Endocrine Disrupting Chemical?

Pesticides

Which of the following activist groups blamed environmental factors for cancers?

Toxic Tour

Women and Cancer Walk

Susan G. Komen: Race for the Cure

Which of the following was not a main goal of the Susan G. Komen: Race for the Cure?

Raise awareness about breast cancer

Increase the amount of research resources

Expose the corporate polluters and hold them accountable

Remove the stigma and same associated with the disease

Which of the following activist groups was know for confrontational protests?

Susan G. Komen: Race for the Cure

Toxic Tour

Women and Cancer Walk

Which of the following activist groups was against mainstream gender and sexuality norms?

Women and Cancer Walk

Susan G. Komen: Race for the Cure

Toxic Tour

Which of the following happens in meiosis but not in mitosis?

Chromosomes are duplicated in the nucleus, sister chromatids bond and form an "x" shape

Chromosome pairs line up along the equator of the cell

Members of each pair exchange DNA information- know as "crossing over"

Spindles pull chromosomes to opposite poles of the cell

If a cell is detected as "bad", what might a cell do to prevent the reproduction of the mutated cell?

Interkinesis

Apoptosis

Aneuploidy

Somatic cell division

Inheritance of a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation guarantees that a person will develop cancer.

True

False

ERa and ERb are ______?

Hormones

Types of estrogen receptors

Types of DNA mutations

Examples of inherited diseases

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