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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