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Genetics

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What is the name for 1 or more forms of the same gene?   show
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show Amino acids.  
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What is the name for the thread-like structure that contains all or part of the DNA?   show
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What is the name for the 3-base group used in genetic code?   show
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What is the name for the structure of DNA?   show
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What is the basic hereditary unit that carries the instuctions to make a particular protein called?   show
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show Genome.  
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What is the name for the genetic makeup of a cell or organism?   show
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show Heterozygous.  
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What is a cell called if it has identical alleles?   show
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What is the name for the position of a gene on a chromosome?   show
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show Mutation.  
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What term describes the physical characteristics of an organism?   show
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What is an allele called if it shows in a heterozygous genotype?   show
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show Recessive.  
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What is commonly used to determine the phenotypes of the childern using the genotypes of the parents?   show
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show Carriers.  
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Why can't a non-tongue-roller be heterozygous for the condition?   show
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show Simple Inheritance; Incomplete Inheritance; Co-Domination; Sex-linked Inheritance.  
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show Incomplete Inheritance.  
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Which is the form of inheritance where the phenotype of the heterozygous organism is a combination of the phenotypes of the homozygous organism?   show
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show OO.  
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show AA or AO.  
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show BB or BO.  
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show AB.  
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What is the short form of "Deoxyribonucleic Acid"?   show
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What did Watson & Crick discover in 1953?   show
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show A nucleotide.  
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What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?   show
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What is it called when Adenine & Thymine, and Guanine & Cytosine pair together?   show
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Each condon describes the type and sequence of what?   show
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Cells use amino acids to make _______ _________.   show
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All genes begin with the same 3 letters: ___.   show
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There are 3 "stop" condons. What are they?   show
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There are a total of ___ possible condons.   show
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show Twenty.  
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What is the process when DNA is copied exactly called?   show
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Each _____ on a DNA strand codes for an _____ ____.   show
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show In gametes or in the zygote cell.  
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show Mutagens.  
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show Cell mutations, that can become a cancerous tumour.  
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What is the most common form of mutation?   show
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The disease Sickle-cell Anaemia is a result of __________.   show
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show Tri-21 (Down Syndrome).  
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show Somatic cells.  
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What are sex cells called?   show
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show Mitosis and Meiosis.  
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show Two.  
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show Diploid cells.  
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show True.  
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show Four.  
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What are the daughter cells produced by Meiosos called?   show
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How many chromosomes do diploid cells have?   show
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show False - they have 23 each.  
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Why does Meiosis produce 4 daughter cells?   show
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What is the passing on of characteristics from the parents to the offspring called?   show
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show A trait.  
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show A hybrid.  
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What is the regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo called?   show
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What only pairs with Thymine (T)?   show
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What only pairs with Guanine (G)?   show
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show The 4 nitrogen bases: Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Guanine (G), and Cytosine (C).  
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What is a nucleotide base attached to?   show
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show Sugar and Phosphate.  
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show Deoxyribose.  
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show True.  
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show Blue mutant gene.  
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Somatic cells are _______ (2n).   show
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Gametes are _______ (n).   show
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Chromosome pairs of the same length, centromere position, and staining pattern, with genes in the same loci are called what?   show
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True/false: Homologous pairs cannot contain different alleles for each feature (eg. eye colour).   show
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Females have a homologous pair of chromosomes (____).   show
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show XY.  
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show A square.  
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show A circle.  
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show DNA and proteins.  
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What is it called when the offspring will only display 1 form of a character?   show
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show Probability.  
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Where are chromosoms located?   show
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Where are genes located?   show
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show At the centromere.  
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Who is the "father of modern genetics"?   show
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What is it called when A bonds to T and C to G?   show
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show Type 'O'.  
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Which type of blood is the universal recipient?   show
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What is the type of inheritance that is gneder-specific?   show
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What speeds up a chemical reaction, and is released unchanged?   show
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show Daughter cells.  
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show Because there is a 50% chance that the sperm carries an X- or a Y-chromosome.  
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