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Blume Ch.5 #1-16
Question | Answer |
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What is an organism that has two different alleles for a trait? | heterozygous |
What occurs when a group of gene pairs acts together to produce a single trait? | polygenic inheritance |
What is an organism with two alleles that are exactly the same? | homozygous |
Through what do scientists experiment to change the arrangement of DNA in a gene? | genetic engineering |
What shows patterns of genetic inheritance in a family ? | pedigree |
What are more than two alleles possible for a trait? | multiple alleles |
What is the way an organism looks and behaves as a result of its gene type? | phenotype |
What is the genetic makeup of an organism called? | genotype |
In what is a normal allele placed into a virus? | gene therapy |
In a punnett square, a small (t) stands for what kind of allele? | recessive |
What type of trait covers up other traits? | dominant |
What is made by inserting a useful segment of DNA from one organism into a bacterium? | recombinant DNA |
WHat happens when both alleles are expressed in offspring? | incomplete dominance |
What are the different forms a gene may have for a trait? | alleles |
What is the passing of traits from one generation to another? | heredity |
What are the alleles for hemophilia on the X chromosome? | sex-linked gene |