Question | Answer |
What are the substances/conditions that increase the chance of a mutation? | mutagens |
What makes up all the genes of a species? | the genome |
During ________, a duplicate DNA Molecule forms | replication |
A mutation causes a change in the _________ of a cell | DNA or chromosomes |
The instructions for assembling a protien are on a _____________ | gene |
_____________ is when you choose to mate organisms with desired traits | selectively breeding |
______________ is when you insert a gene from one organism into another | genetic engineering |
Another word for spliced DNA is ________ | recombinant DNA |
Mutations in body cells cause _______________ | cells to die, but have no effect on the body |
Mutations in sex cells cause __________ | useful things, like the size of a plant. Or it can cause many of 4,000 diseases or disorders to the offspring |
What determines an organisms traits and tells a cell how to put together a particular protien? | genes |
__________ cells are most commonly used because _________ | bacteria; they are only single celled organisms |
If a person has a recessive gene for a disease, but does not have the disease, then they must have a __________ gene to cover for the disease causing gene. These people are ________ of the disease | dominant; carrier |
Albinism, cystic fibrosis, down's syndrome, and sickle-cell anemia are all cause by ________ genes | recessive/deffective |
What are the nitrogen bases of DNA and how do they pair up? | adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine; A&T, C&G |
DNA that is created when genetic engeineers move genes from one organism to another is ____________ DNA | recombinant |