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unit 3 QSA
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Question | Answer |
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What is a word that means child | offspring |
hymozygous | recessive |
Dominant means | strong |
What two scientists discovered the shape of DNA | Watson and crick |
Who determines the sex of the baby | father or male |
What is the opposite side of the DNA ladder that starts ATGCTCTG | TACGAGAC |
Recessive means | weak |
What is the genetic material that controls all the activities of a cell and provides instructions for all living things | deoxyribonucleic acid DNA |
What are the three parts of a DNA molecule | sugar phosphate and base |
What is the shape of DNA | double helix |
wHere do you find DNA | nucleus |
How do DNA bases fit together | A=T and G=C |
The physical looks of a trait | Phenotype |
The genetic appearance of a trait | Genotype |
Dominant alleles use | capital letters |
Recessive alleles use | lowercase letters |
What would you call a genotype Bb | heterozygous or hybrid |
What would you call a genotype BB | homozygous dominant |
What would you call genotype bb | homozygous recessive |
A piece of DNA that codes for specific trait is called an | allele or gene |
Human body cells have how many chromosomes | 23 pairs of chromosomes |
Two forms of the same gene are known as | alleles |
If an individual is heterozygous Bb what will they look like Dominant or Recessive | Dominant |
Where are genes found | chromosomes |