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Genetics and Society
Exam 3
Question | Answer |
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Was part of a team who discovered that the differences in protein sequences refelcted the amount of evolutionary change between two species | Emile Zuckerkandl |
Used a tree model to describe the genetic history of species and coined the term phylogenetics | Ernst Haeckel |
Using foxes; this long-term experiment to determine the genetic heritability of characteristics associated with domestication in canines was started by thihs researcher | Dmitri Belyaev |
First descibed a geneitc disease charcterized by impaired neurological development and a host of other symptoms and now known to be due to chromosomal duplication | John Langdon Down |
British mathematician, along w/ another researcher who decribed the same principle, found that all else being equal when a population is in equilibrium allele frequencies in one generation may be used to predict genotype frequencies in the next generation | Godfrey Harold Hardy |
Came up with the first viable theory by which evolution may occur | Charles Darwin |
A plant pathogen used in the production of GMO crops to deliver genes to the plant genome | Agrobacterium |
S biological characteristic which two different organisms share in common because they inherited it from a common ancestor | Homologous Trait |
Can become any type of cell in a multicelluar organism | Totipotent Cell |
Harvesting cells fron a patient and cloning those cells to create new tissues and organs | Therapeutic Cloning |
Autosomal Dominant; found on chromosome 4 and more often found among people of European descent | Huntington's Disease |
Total colorblindness is also known as... | Monochromacy |