Biological Science

Chapter 11: How Do Genes Work?

Figure Review

This is an on-line version of the green Figure Review questions and exercises included with many of the figures in your textbook. Each question includes the figure number from the book to help you complete the requested task. Use this version to quickly and easily submit your work to your instructor or teaching assistant.

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Figure 11.2
On the figure in your textbook (page 219), add labels to the three test tubes illustrated in the middle of the diagram, indicating which tubes contain protein + RNA, RNA + DNA, and DNA + protein.  

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Figure 11.5
Why did Beadle and Tatum grow the irradiated spores on complete medium first?  

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Figure 11.6
Why was the choice of the term messenger appropriate?  

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Figure 11.7
Experimental strategies that rely on trying all conceivable possibilities are sometimes called brute-force approaches. In what sense was the search for RNA polymerase a brute-force approach?  

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Figure 11.9
On the figure in your textbook (page 226), add a diagram illustrating what happens to the reading frame when two deletion or two addition mutations take place in the same sequence.  

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Figure 11.10
Pick four codons at random. Which three bases in DNA specify each of these codons?  

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