Biology - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Allele characteristic that appears in the phenotype when only one copy is present	dominant	48%
The largest part of the brain	Cerebellum	46%
The gut wall contracts to move food long, what type of muscle is this?	involuntary	40%
Programmed cell death	Apoptosis	36%
The creation of a single-stranded mRNA copy of the DNA coding strand	Transcription	31%
The formation of a species	speciation	30%
The assembly of polypeptides at ribosomes	Translation	29%
The phase in the cell cycle in which there are two copies of each chromosome.	Interphase	27%
The motor neurone pathway that is most active when you are asleep	parasympathetic	27%
Alleles that are both expressed in the phenotype	codominant	26%
The type of muscle in which the fibres are connected by intercalated discs	cardiac	21%
The genetic constitution of an organism	genotype	20%
The name of the cytoplasm in a muscle fibre cell	sarcoplasm	20%
The cycle that happens in the stroma	Calvin cycle	19%
The removal of the amine group from an amino acid to produce ammonia	Deamination	19%
An organism that carries two different alleles	heterozygote	19%
The alpha cells manufacture and secrete what?	glucagon	18%
Technical name of the liver cells	hepatocytes	18%
The nervous system that controls conscious activity	somatic	18%
A disease in which blood glucose concentrations cannot be controlled effectively	Diabetes mellitus	13%
The formation of ATP by adding a phosphate group to ADP, in the presence of oxygen	Oxidative phosphorylation	13%
The amino acid that always starts the polypeptide chain.	Methionine	12%
The type of meristem found at the apices of shoots and roots	Apical	11%
What is the normal resting potential in a neurone	-60mV	10%
Interaction of different gene loci so that the gene locus masks or suppresses the expression of another gene locus	epistasis	9%
Directional growth response in which the plant moves away from the light	negative phototropism	8%
A gland that secretes molecules into a duct that carries the molecules to where they are used.	Exocrine gland	6%
A length of DNA, made up of structural genes and control sites.	Operon	4%
What are the epithelial cells of the Bowman's capsule called?	podocytes	4%
The process in which ammonia is converted to urea	ornithine cycle	3%
Type of tropism in which a plant winds around solid structures to gain support	Thigmotropism	3%
A hormone that promotes cell division	cytokinins	2%
These cells breakdown and recycle red blood cells	Kupffer Cells	2%
The processes in respiration in which carbon dioxide is produced	Link reaction and krebs cycle	2%
Molecules that absorb light energy	photosynthetic pigments	2%
A hormone that inhibits seed germination and growth	Abscisic acid	1%
What is the post synaptic receptor in neuromuscular junctions	nicotonic cholinergic	1%
The production of structures in an organism that can grow into new individual organisms	Vegetative propagation	0%

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