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𧬠CHAPTER 3 ā GENETICS FLASHCARDS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. What are the basic components of DNA? | ā Deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group, nitrogen bases (A, T, C, G) |
| 2. What are base pair substitutions? | ā One nucleotide replaced with another |
| 4. What is an intron mutation? | ā Mutation in noncoding region; usually no protein effect |
| 5. What is a frameshift mutation? | ā Insertion/deletion that shifts reading frame ā major protein change |
| 6. What are the base components of DNA? | ā Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine |
| 7. What is a complementary DNA strand? | ā Matching base-pair strand (AāT, CāG) |
| 8. Complement of CGATACGT? | ā GCTATGCA |
| 9. What is transcription? | 10. What is translation? |
| 11. What is termination in protein synthesis? | ā Stop codon ends translation |
| 12. What is translocation? | ā Chromosome segment moves to another chromosome |
| 13. What is nondisjunction? | ā Failure of chromosomes to separate during meiosis |
| 14. Diseases from nondisjunction? | ā Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome |
| v15. Haploid | ā One set of chromosomes (n) |
| 16. Diploid | 16. Diploid |
| 17. Euploid | ā Normal chromosome number |
| 18. Polyploid | ā More than two sets of chromosomes |