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Genetics and DNA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Genome | All of a organism genetic material |
| Characteristic’s | Characteristics are traits or qualities |
| Traits | A form of a characteristic |
| Chromosomes / chromatin | A condensed , thread like structure made up of DNA and proteins |
| Histones | The protein in chromosomes that binds to DNA and helps it to coil up. |
| Coding DNA | DNA that carries instructions for building proteins. |
| Non Coding DNA | DNA that does not carry instructions for building proteins but has other functions. |
| Gene | |
| Locus | |
| A small section of DNA that contains the code for a protein. | |
| the specific, fixed location of a gene or other DNA sequence on a chromosome. | |
| Gamete | A sex cell that contains half the full set of chromosomes. In humans, the female gamete is the egg and the male gamete is the sperm. |
| Fertilisation | The fusion of the nuclei of the egg and the sperm to form a zygote. |
| Nuclear inheritance | Most of the genetic material passed from parents to offspring is located on the chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell. |
| Non Nuclear inheritance | |
| is the inheritance of traits from the DNA in organelles outside of the nucleus. |