Lecture 3

Question 1

What would be fertilization in animals or plants (n to 2n) would be what in yeast?

Answer 1

cell fusion. Makes diploid cells by fusing a cell with alpha cell

Question 2

What is the cycle between fertilization and meiosis, starting with meiosis?

Answer 2

meiosis, gametes, fertilization, zygote, mitosis, multicellular adult

Question 3

What are the male and female parts of a corn plant called?

Answer 3

male: tassel

female: ear shoot

Question 4

Meiosis in tassel creates what?

Answer 4

pollen

Question 5

Meiosis in ear shoot creates what?

Answer 5

eggs

Question 6

What type of pollination do corn plants do?

Answer 6

cross-pollination

Question 7

What happens to the fertilized eggs of corn?

Answer 7

become kernels attached to a cob

Question 8

What is budding in yeast?

Answer 8

mitosis cytokinesis is unequal. There is a mother cell and bud cell

Question 9

Yeast does not have sexes. What does it have instead?

Answer 9

Mating types. Such as:

alpha: haploid n = 16

a: haploid n = 16

a/alpha: diploid 2n = 32

Question 10

Each a/alpha diploid makes how many cells?

Answer 10

2 a and 2 alpha cells

Question 11

What does TERT stand for?

Answer 11

telomerase reverse transcriptase

Question 12

Where is the cytological location of TERT?

Answer 12

5p15.3

Question 13

What does TERC stand for?

Answer 13

telomerase RNA component

Question 14

Where is the cytological location of TERC?

Answer 14

3q26.2