Year 12 · WACE / Biology
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- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- How does binary fission maintain continuity in a bacterial lineage?
- What is the genetic outcome of mitosis after DNA replication?
- What separates in anaphase I of meiosis?
- What separates in anaphase II of meiosis?
- Why does meiosis halve chromosome number?
- A species has 2n = 12. How many chromosomes should each normal gamete contain?
- Why does fertilisation restore diploid chromosome number?
- How do mitosis and meiosis differ in genetic purpose?
- Why are four products of animal meiosis not four predetermined offspring?
- Correct the claim that cytokinesis copies DNA.
- What are the three components of a DNA nucleotide?
- Which bases pair in double-stranded DNA?
- What does antiparallel mean for DNA strands?
- Why can one DNA strand template a complementary strand?
- What makes DNA replication semi-conservative?
- After S phase, does chromosome number double?
- A double-stranded DNA molecule contains 28% adenine. What percentage is cytosine?
- Why is DNA polymerase proofreading important?
- Where is most eukaryotic nuclear DNA organised?
- Correct the claim that hydrogen bonds form the DNA backbone.
- What is the difference between coding and template DNA strands in transcription?
- What does a promoter do?
- How is mRNA related to the DNA template?
- What is a codon?
- What is an anticodon?
- Where does translation occur?
- Translate 5′-AUG GAA UUU UGA-3′ if GAA is Glu and UUU is Phe.
- Why can different codons specify the same amino acid?
- How can amino-acid sequence affect protein function?
- Correct the claim that genes are proteins.
- What does a genotype–environment interaction mean?
- Why can genetically identical cuttings differ in height?
- What is a base substitution?
- How does an insertion within a coding region often cause a frameshift?
- Why can a substitution be silent?
- What is a nonsense mutation?
- Why is mutation not directed by an organism's need?
- How does crossing over create variation?
- How does independent assortment create variation?
- Distinguish acclimation from inherited adaptation.
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