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Chapter 11 Vocab.
Straughn 9th Grade Honors Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| carrier | individual heterozygous for a recessive disorder such as cystic fibrosis or Tay-Sachs disease |
| pedigree | diagrammed family history that is used to study inheritance patterns of a trait through several generations and that can be used to predict disorders in future offspring |
| incomplete dominance | complex inheritance pattern in which the heterozygous phenotype is intermediate between those of the two homzygous parent organisms |
| codominance | complex inheritance pattern that occurs when neither allele is dominant and both alleles are expressed |
| multiple alleles | having more than two alleles for a specific trait |
| epistasis | interaction between alleles in which one allele hides the affects of another allele |
| sex chromosome | X or Y chromosome; paired sex chromosomes determine an individuals gender - XX individuals are female and XY individuals are male |
| outsome | chromosome that is not a sex chromosome |
| sex-linked trait | characteristic; such as red-green color blindness, controlled by genes on the X chromosome; also called the X-linked trait |
| polygenic trait | characteristic; such as eye color or skin color, that results from the interaction of multiple gene pairs |
| karyotype | micrograph in which the pairs of homologus chromosomes are arranged in decreasing size |
| telomere | protective cap made of DNA that is found on the ends of a chromosome |
| nondisjunction | cell division in which the sister chromatids do not separate correctly; resulting in gametes with an abnormal number of chromosomes |