WSU Biology 102 bundled exams with complete solution

Q What types of questions cannot be explored using scientific methods? - Answer-Is God real? What is the meaning of life? Anything that can't be experimented. Q What types of questions can science be used to explore? - Answer-Any question, prediction that an be tested in a scientific experiment....

oncogenes - Answer-Promote mitosis/simulate mitosis CODIS - Answer-national registry of DNA fingerprints for criminals 2 proteins made by bacteria - Answer-insulin, growth hormone reverse transcription - Answer-Virus RNA -> Virus DNA-> Virus protein palliative care - Answer-goal is to tr...

Heterozygous - When two different alleles combine to form a trait. Example: A tall person and a short person have a child who is short. The short allele is dominant so the child grew up to be short. Gene - A section of DNA that controls a certain trait. Example: Eye color. Dominant - Determines ...

hypothesis - Answer-an informed, logical, and plausible explanation of observations of the natural world what does it mean that a hypothesis must be "falsifiable" - Answer-it must make predictions that can be clearly determined to be true or false, right or wrong correlation - Answer-a statisti...

Gene vs Allele - Answer-Gene: A section of DNA that controls a certain trait. Example: Eye color. Allele: A specific variation of a gene. Example: Having blue eyes. Dominant vs Recessive - Answer-Dominant: Determines the expression of a trait (visually). Example: Brown eyes, dark hair. Recessiv...

How does BPA cause cancer? - Answer-it disrupts meiosis and mitosis causing breast and prostate cancer. 3 and 7 plastics may contain BPA What is a genetic fingerprint? how do you make one? - Answer--Genetic Fingerprint: DNA uses the differences in base sequences to identify individuals. -DNA fin...

What is a theory in science? - Answer-and overarching explanation of a variety of related observations What is a hypothesis - Answer-an educated guess about a natural phenomenon Science is limited to hypotheses that can be falsified. What does this mean? - AnswerThat Hypotheses must be made so th...