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Cell Division and Replication

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What is the continuity of life based upon?   Based on the reproduction of cells or cell division  
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How do unicellular organisms reproduce?   By cell division  
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What is an example of a unicellular organism?   Amoebo, bacteria...etc.  
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What are the three things multicellular organisms depend on cell division for?   Development from a fertilized cell, growth, repair  
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What does cell division result in?   Genetically identical daughter cells  
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What do cells do before they divide?   They ensure that each daughter cell receives an exact copy of DNA; they duplicate DNA  
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Genome:   Cell's endowment of DNA  
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Prokaryotic Genome:   Single long DNA molecule  
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Eukaryotic genome:   Has a number of DNA molecules  
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What is the DNA in a human cell:   2 m DNA, 250,000 greater than diameter  
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Where is all the DNA in a cell located?   In chromosomes  
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Every eukaryotic species has how many chromosomes?   A characteristic number  
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Somatic Cells:   All body cells except reproductive cells  
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Reproductive cells and what's anothe rname for it:   Ova, sperm, eggs, (gametes)  
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What many chromosomes are in somatic cells?   46 chromosomes (2 sets of 23) (1 inherited from each parent)  
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Chromatin:   Is in eukaryotic chromosomes and is a complex of DNA and protein that condenses during cell division  
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How many chromosomes are in gametes?   23 chromosomes  
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What does the cell do to prepare for division?   DNA is replicated and the chromosomes condense  
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What does each duplicated chromosome have?   2 sister chromatids  
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What does each chromatid contain?   An identical DNA molecule  
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How are chromatids (INITIALLY) attached to cell?   adhesive proteins  
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What does eukaryotic cell divison consist of?   Mitosis, and cytokenisis  
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Mitosis:   The division of the nucleus or dna  
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cytokinesis:   The division of the cytoplasm  
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What is meiosis and what about the daughter cells in this process?   When sex cells are produced after a reduction in chromosome number--the daughet cells are going to be non-identical and have only 23 chromosomes  
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Where, specifically (in males and females) does meiosis occur?   gonads--ovaries and testes  
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Fertilization:   Fuses two gametes together and returns the chromosome number to 46  
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What does the cell cycle consist of?   Mitotic phase or M phase, and interphase  
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Mitotic phase:   Usually the shortest part of the cell cycle where mitosis and cytokinesis occurs  
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Interphase (what percent of cell cycle does it cover?)   accounts of 90% of cell cycle  
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what does Interphase consists of? Which phases?   Gap 1 phase, synthesis phase, and gap two phase  
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What occurs in the S phase?   chromosomes are duplicated  
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How does the cell grow in interphase?   By producing proteins and cytoplasmic organelles like mitochondria and ER  
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What are the five stages of mitosis?   Prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase  
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What happens in the latter stages of Mitosis?   cytokinesis overlaps with them to complete the mitotic phase  
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What happens to the chromatic fibers in prophase?   They become more tightly coiled, condensing into discrete chromosomes observable with a light microscope  
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What happens to the nucleoli in prophase?   it disappears  
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How does the chromosome appear in prophase?   as 2 identical sister chromatids joined together  
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What begins to form in prophase?   mitotic spindles, composed of the centrosomes and the microtubles that extend from them  
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Asters:   Radial arrays of shorter microtubules extending from the centrosome  
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What happens to the centrosomes in prophase?   They move away from each other--propelled by the lengthening microtubules between them  
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What happens to the nuclear envelope in prometaphase?   it fragments  
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What can the microtubules of the spindle do in prometaphase?   They can invade the nuclear area and interact with the chromosomes which have become more condensed  
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What do the microtubules do in prometaphase?   Extend from each centrosome toward the middle of the cell  
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What does each of the two sister chromatids have in prometaphase?   has a kinetochore  
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Kinetochore:   Specialized protein structure located at the centromere  
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What do some of the microtubules do in prometaphase?   attach to kinetochores to become (Kinetochore micro) and jerk the chromosomes back and forth  
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Nonkinetochore microtubules do what in prometaphase?   interact with those from the opposite pole of the spindle  
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What is the longest phase in mitosis and how long does it take?   metaphase (20mins)  
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Where are the centrosomes located in metaphase?   opposite ends of the cell  
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Where do the centrosomes gather in metaphse?   At the metaphase plate  
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what is a metaphase plate?   an imaginary plane that is equal distance between the spindle's 2 poles  
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What lies on this plate?   chromosome's centromeres  
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For each chromosome in metaphase, what about the kinetochores of the sister chromatids   They are attached to the kinetochore microtubules coming from opposite poles  
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Spindle:   Entire apparatus of microtubules, it is called spindle because of its shape  
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What is the shortest phase of mitosis?   Anaphase (few mins)  
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When does the anaphase begin? and what happens to the chromatids at this point?   When two sister chromatids of each pair suddenly part-each chromatid then becomes a full fledged chromosome  
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What happens as kinetochore microtubules shorten in anaphase?   the two liberated chromosomes begin moving to opposite ends of the cell  
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When does the cell elongate in anaphase?   When the nonkinetochore microtubules lengthen  
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At the end of anaphase, what do the two ends have?   equal and complete collections of chromosomes  
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What begins to form in telophase?   2 daughter nuclei begin to form and the nuclear envelope develops from fragments  
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What happens to the chromosomes in telophase?   they become less condensed  
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What is the specific definition of Mitosis, and when does it end?   The division of 1 nucleus into two identical nuclei ends at mitosis  
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What is usually underway by late telophse?   The division of cytoplasm--so that the two daughter cells appear shortly after the end of mitosis  
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What does a cleavage furrow do in animal cells:   pinches the cell in two and initiates cytokinesis  
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What happens in plant cells, during cytokinesis?   a cell plate forms  
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The cell cycle is regulated by what?   a molecular control system  
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The frequency of cell division varies with   the type of cell  
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These cell cycle differences result from what?   regulation at the molecular level  
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How are the sequential events of the cell cycle directed?   by a distinct cell cycle control system, which is similar to a clock  
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This clock has specific checkpoints and what happens at those points?   the cycle stops until a go-ahead signal is received  
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What are the two types of regulatory proteins involved in the cell cycle control?   Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (phosphorylation)  
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Where do the protein kinases give the go-ahead signals?   at the G1 and G2 points  
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What must be done to the kinases?   The kinases must be activated even though they are at costant concentrations in the cell  
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How are the kinases activated?   by the attachment of a cyclin  
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cyclins   Get their name from their cyclically fluctuating concentration in the cell  
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What is important to note about cyclins in the cell?   1) Fluctuate during cell cycle  
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What was the first CDK complex to the discovered?   MPF--maturation promoting factor or "m-phase promoting factor  
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What does the MPF do?   Triggers the cell's passage past the G2 checkpoint into M phase  
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Why are cyclin CDK complexes activated?   So this complex can phosphorylate other proteins and send a cell into the mitotic phase (cell division)  
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What is important about CDK and cyclin:   CDK is inactive unless cyclin is bound to it  
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REMEMBER SLIDE 36   PRINT SLIDE  
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Both internal and external signals   control the cell cycle checkpoints  
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growth factors   stimulate cells to divide  
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density-dependent inhibition   crowded cells stop growing  
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anchorage dependent cell growth   cells must be attached to some substratum in order for them to divide  
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What is used to hold the anchorage   plastic  
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What do cancer cells exhibit (or not)   neither density-dependant inhibition nor anchorage dependence (uncontrolled)  
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Cancer cells don't respond to   Don't respond normally to body's control mechanisms  
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Cancer cells divide   out of control  
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What does the cancer cell division cause/   a tumor  
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When does cancer begin?   when a single cell in a tissue undergoes transformation  
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When a transformed cell evades destruction   In can divide and form a tumor  
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Benign tumor:   when cancer cells remain at the original site; they don't cause problems and are simply removed via surgery  
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Malignant tumors:   Become invasive...impair the function of organs, they divide quickly and form tumors or metastasize  
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metastasis:   spread of cancer cells to distant locations from original site  
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When the cancer cells leave the benign location   they can spread and create more tumors in other parts of the body (secondary tumors)  
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How are living organism distinguished?   By their ability to reproduce their own kind  
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Heredity:   Transmission of traits from one generation to the next  
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Variation   Shows the offspring differ somewhat in appearance from parents and siblings  
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Genetics   the scientific study of heredity and hereditary variation  
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How can genetics be studied? What are the three ways?   Organism, cell, molecule  
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How do offsprings acquire genes from parents?   inheriting chromosomes  
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Genes are two things...what?   Units of heredity and segments of DNA  
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Each gene in an organism's DNA is located where?   in a specific locus (location) on a certain chromosomes  
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What is an example of something that undergoes asexual reproduction?   Hydra  
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What is asexual reproduction?   One parent produces gentically indentical offspring by MITOSIS  
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Sexual reproduction:   When two parents' offspring that have unique combinations of genes inherited from two parents  
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What alternates in sexual life cycle?   Fertilization and meiosis  
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A life cycle is what?   Generation to generation sequence of stages in the reproductive history of an organism from conception to production of its own offspring  
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Karyotype:   An ordered visual representation of the chromosomes in a cell  
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Homologous chromosomes (3 things about them, third thing is another name for them)   two chromosomes composing a pair, have the same characteristcs, autosomes  
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Sex chromosomes:   Distinct from each other in their characteristics  
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How are sex chromosomes represented?   X and Y  
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What sex chromosomes do you need to have to be female...Male?   XX XY  
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What is used to represent the number of chromosmes in a single set?   n  
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what's another name for a diploid cell?   Somatic cell  
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Haploid cells:   one set of chromosomes  
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Diploid cell   has two sets of each of its chromosomes,  
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: give a representation of chromosomes in humans   2n = 46  
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What are examples of haploid cells?   Sperm, egg, gametes  
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In humans, give an example of the representation of chromosomes in gametes   23 n  
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What happens at sexual maturity?   ovaries and testes produce haploid gametes by meiosis  
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In fertilization   these gametes, sperm and ovum, fuse, forming a diploid zygote  
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Zygote   develops into an adult organism  
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Meiosis reduces:   the number of chromosome sets from diploid to haploid  
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what are the two sets of divisions of meiosis?   Meiosis I and II  
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Meiosis I reduces what, with respect to chromosomes   reduces the number of chromosomes from diploid (46) to haploid (23)  
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Meiosis II produces how many haploid daughter cells   four  
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What's important about mitosis:   conserves the number of chromosome sets, produces daughter cells gentically identical to their parent cell and to each other  
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How many events are unique to meiosis, and where do they occur?   3 events, occur in meiosis one  
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What are the three eventss?   Synapsis and crossing over, tetrads on the metaphase plate, seperation of homologues  
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Where does the first event take place?   Prophase 1: homologous chromosomes physically connect and exchange genetic info  
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Where does the second event take place?   metaphase I: paired homologous chromosomes (tetrads) are positioned on the metaphase plates  
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Where does the third event take place?   at anaphase I, homologous pairs move toward opposite poles of the cell; in anaphase II, the sister chromatids seperate  
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What contributes to evolution?   genetic variation produced in sexual life cycles  
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What produces genetic variation?   reshuffling of gentic material in meiosis  
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What are recombinant chromosomes and when are they produced? what do they carry?   new chromosomes, they are produced in chrosing over, they carry genes derived from two different parents  
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What will the fusion of gametes provide?   produces a zygote with any of about 64 trillion diploid combinations  
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Where are genes located?   Chromosomes  
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How does mendalian inheritance have its physical basis?   in the behavior of chromosomes  
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What accounts for Mendel's laws?   behavior of chromosmes during meiosis  
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What are mendel's two laws made of?   segregation and independant assortment  
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What accounts for the segregation and independent assortment of teh allelles for seed color and shape?   Arrangement of chromosmes at metaphase I of meiosis  
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Each cell that undergoes meiosis in a F1 plant produce how many kinds of gametes?   Two  
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F1 plants produce equal numbers of how many kinds of gametes...and why?   Four kinds, and because the alternative chromosome arrangements at metaphase I are equally likely  
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Peas have how many chromosome pairs?   Seven  
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What did thomas hung morgan provide?   convincing evidence that chromosomes are the location of mendel's heritable factors  
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What did morgan work with & why (3 reasons)?   Fruit flies, because they breed at a high rate, a new generation every two weeks, they only have four pairs of chromosomes  
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Wild type:   Normal phenotypes  
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What did he call alternative traits to the wild type?   mutant phenotypes  
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What does morgan's experiment with white eyes and red eyes tell us? Which chromosome?   Sex-linked atraits, this was the first evidence indicating that a specific gene associated with a specific chromosome exists (X-chromosome)  
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Sister Chromatid:   Replicated forms of chromosome joined together by the centromere and separated druing mitosis or meiosis II.  
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Loci or location:   Location of a gene on a chromosome  
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Chromatid:   Each of the two daughter strands joined at centromere during Mtiosis or Meiosis  
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What laws do chromosomes follow during meisosis?   Laws of mendelian genetics  
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What does the segregation law imply?   Two allelles of a gene separate during meiosis (gamete formation), so that a sperm or an egg carries only one allele of each pair.  
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What if 2 alleles of a gene are different?   Dominant over recessive  
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True-breeding:   Having the same two alleles (homozygous)  
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What doeas the second law imply?   Each pair of alleles segregates into gametes independently of other pairs  
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What is the most lethal genetic disease in the U.S.?   Cystic Fibrosis  
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Cellular level of lethal disease?   Lack working chloride channel in plasma membrane of certain cells (lungs, G1 tract), so choride ions outside the cell increases, affects osmosis. Mucous that coates cell becomes thicker, favors infections  
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Character:   hertitable features, flower color, height, or lung function  
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Trait:   A variant of character, purple or white, tall or short, function or dysfunctional  
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Phenotype:   Observable  
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Genotype:   Entire genetic identity that is not observable  
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Homozygous:   two identical alleles  
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Heterozygous:   Unidentical alleles  
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Dominant:   Overpowers other traits  
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Recessive:   Masked  
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