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Biology 1 Chapter 15 (Lecture) Flashcards

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The reason that linked genes are inherited together is that

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They are located on the same chromosome

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What is the mechanism for the production of genetic recombinants?

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Crossing over and independent assortment

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Males are more often affected by sex-linked traits than females because

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Males are hemizygous for the X chromosome

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A man who carries an X-linked allele will pass it on to

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All of his daughters

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What syndrome afflicts mostly males?

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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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If a chromosome lacks certain genes, what has most likely occurred?

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A deletion

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Of the Human trisomies, the one that generally has the most severe impact on the health of the individual is

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Trisomy 21

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What do all human males inherit from their mother?

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An X chromosome and mitochondria DNA

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9
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What is false about Down’s Syndrome?

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It is a sex-linked disorder

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What is not true of Turner’s Syndrome?

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They are genetically XXX

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What results in male sex organs but may have some female body characteristics present? (They are also sterile and may have subnormal intelligence)

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XXY

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12
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What is not a sex-linked disorder?

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Sickle Cell Anemia

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13
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What kind of chemical bond is found between paired bases of the DNA double helix?

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Hydrogen

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In an analysis of the nucleotide composition of DNA, what is true?

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A+C=G+T and G+A=T+C

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The strands that make up DNA are antiparallel. This means that

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The 5’ to 3’ direction of one strand runs counter to the 5’ to 3’ direction of the other strand

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What is the function of DNA polymerase?

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To add nucleotides to the end of a growimng DNA strand

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Removes the RNA nucleotides from the primer and adds equivalent DNA nucleotides to the 3’ end of Okazaki fragments

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DNA polymerase I

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18
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Separates the DNA strands during replication

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Helicase

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Covalently connects segments of DNA

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Ligase

20
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Synthesizes short segments of RNA

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Primase

21
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Wild Type

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The phenotype for a character most commonly observed in natural populations

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Mutant Phenotypes

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Traits that are alternatives to the wild type.

Because they are due to alleles assumed to have originated as changes or mutations in the wild type allele.

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Sex-Linked Gene

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A gene located on either sex chromosome

24
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Fathers pass sex-linked alleles to all of their…

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Daughters but none to their sons.

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Mothers can pass sex-linked alleles to…

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Sons and Daughters

26
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Far more _____ have sex-linked recessive disorders

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Males

27
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Male sex-linked recessive disorders

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  • Color Blindness
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Hemophilia
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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  • 1/3500 males born in US
  • Progressive weakening of the muscles and loss of coordination
  • Rarely live past early 20’s
  • Absence of a key muscle protein (dystrophin) and have mapped the gene for this protein to specific locus on the x chromosome
29
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Hemophilia

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Defined by the absence of one or more of the proteins required for blood clotting

  • Bleeding is prolonged because firm clot is slow to form
  • Small cuts are usually ok; but bleeding in the muscles or joints can be painful and can lead to serious damage
  • Treated as needed with IV injections of the missing proteins.
30
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Barr Body

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The inactive X in each cell of a female condenses into a compact object.

Most of these genes are not expressed. Females are a mosaic of two types of cells: those with active X derived from the father and those with active X derived from the mother.

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Linked Genes

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Genes located on the same chromosome that tend to be inherited together in genetic crosses.

32
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Genetic Recombination

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Offspring that inherit a phenotype that is different from either parent

33
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If there is a 50% frequency of recombination in a heterozygous x homozygous testcross tells us…

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That the two genes are located on different chromosomes and are thus unlinked.

34
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Crossing Over

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Accounts for the recombination of linked genes. In this end portions of two nonsister chromatids trade places each time a crossover occurs.

35
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Genetic Map

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An ordered list of the genetic loci along a particular chromosome.

36
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The farther apart two genes are, the higher the probability that…

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A crossover will occur between them and therefore the higher the recombination frequency.

37
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Linkage Map

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A genetic map based on recombination frequencies

38
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Nondisjunction

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A mishap in which the members of a pair of homologous chromosomes do not move apart properly during meiosis I or sister chromatids fail to separate during meiosisII. In these cases, one gamete receives 2 of the same type of chromosome and the other receives 0 copies.

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Aneuploidy

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If this aberrant gamete unites with a normal on at fertilization the zygote will have an abnormal number of chromosomes.

40
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Alterations of chromosome structure due to chromosome breakage:

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  • Deletion
  • Duplication
  • Inversion
  • Translocation
41
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Deletion

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Chromosomal fragment is lost

42
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Duplication

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When an extra segment is attached to a sister chromatid

43
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Inversion

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reverses a segment within the chromosome

44
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Translocation

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Moves a segment from one chromosome to a nonhomologous chromosome

45
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Genes located in organelles in the cytoplasm contain small circular DNA molecules

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  • Mitochondria
  • Chloroplasts
  • Plant Plastids
46
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Almost all mitochondrial DNA is…

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Maternal DNA almost all the mitochodria passed on to the zygote comes from the cytoplasm of the egg (Instead of the sperm)

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