Genetics II Test Study Guide
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| Traits are influenced by genes and environmental factors. Explain the difference. | Genes are inherited from parents but the environment affects many of your traits.
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| What is a carrier? | Someone who is carrying the disorder.
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| What are the male and female sex chromosomes? | Female sex chromosomes are XX, and male sex chromosomes are XY.
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| How does down syndrome occur? | Down syndrome with occur if you have a nondisjunction on chromosome 21.
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| What is sickle-cell anemia? | A mutated form of hemoglobin distorts the red cells into a crescent shape at low oxygen levels.
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| Describe DNA (including its shape and what it's made of) | DNA has a double helix shape and is made of Adenine. Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine.
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| What rules must be fallowed when ATCG bases are paired up? | A is always with T and G is always with C.
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| What is karyotype? | The number of visual appearance of the chromosome in the cell nuclei of an organism or species.
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| What is selective breeding? | The process of selecting a few organisms with the desired traits to serve as a parent of the next generation.
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| What is inbreeding? | Crossing two individuals that have identical or similar sets of alleles.
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| What is cloning? | Organism that is genetically identical to the organism which produced it.
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| What is a genome? | All the DNA in one cell of an organism.
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| What was the purpose of the human genome project? | To provide scientists with an encyclopedia of information for humans.
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| What is a mutation? | Any change in a gene or chromosome.
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| What is a gene? | A unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
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| What is genetic engineering? | Genes from one organism are transferred into DNA of another organism.
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| What is the difference in mitosis and meiosis? | Meiosis has two rounds of genetic separation and cellular division while Mitosis only has one of each.
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| What is unique about an identical twin's DNA? | Each of there DNA is the exactly the same as the others.
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