Biology 2 (Chapter 9) Flashcards

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Gregor Mendel created

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True Breeding Varieties Of Plants

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Gregor Mendel Crossed two different true breeding varieties creating?

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Hybrids

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Offspring of two different true breeding varieties crossing is called?

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First Filial or F1 generation

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4 Things That Make A Good Genetics Research Model Organism?

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Easily Bred, Short Generation Time, Readily Available, Reasonable Price

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Homozygous Definition

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When an organism has identical alleles for a gene

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Heterozygous Definition

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When an organism has different alleles for a gene

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Phenotype Definition

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An Organisms Physical Traits

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Genotype

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Organisms genetic makeup, should be 2 copies (alleles) of each gene

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How many copies of alleles should there be in a Genotype

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2

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Genotype PP:

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Homozygous For The Dominant Allele

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Genotype AA:

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Homozygous For The Recessive Allele

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Genotype BB:

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Heterozygous

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Dominant Gene:

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If the dominant gene is in DNA, It will be expressed; NOT necessarily dominant in terms of being most beneficial

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Recessive Gene:

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If recessive gene is present it takes 2 copies of the gene for the physical trait to be expressed

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____ is the instruction manual _____ do the work

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DNA, PROTEINS

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_____ —–> _______ ——> _______ —-> _______

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DNA - RNA - PROTEIN - TRAIT

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What’s A Monohybrid Cross

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Cross between parent plants that differ in only one characteristic

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A Testcross is mating between?

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Individual of unknown genotype & homozygous recessive individual

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What Does A Family Pedigree Do?

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Shows history of trait in family, allows researches to analyze human traits

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Examples Of Human Disorders Controlled By A Single Gene

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Albinism, Cystic Fibrosis, Red-Green color blindness

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Most Human Genetic Disorders Are ____

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Recessive

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Hypercholesterolemia

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Human trait that is incompletely dominant

23
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Ways To Find Out Your Bloodtype

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Parent, Hospitalization, Donate Blood, Pregnancy, Military

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Whats Pleiotropy

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Impact of a single gene on more than one characteristic

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Example Of Pleiotropy

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Sickle-Cell Disease

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Polygenetic Inheritance

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Trait Controlled By Two Or More Genes

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Example Of X Linked Disorder

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Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia

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Blood Group A Has?

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Has A Antigens On The Red Blood Cells With Anti-B Antibodies In The Plasma

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Blood Group B Has?

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Has B Antigens On The Red Blood Cells With Anti-A Antibodies In The Plasma

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Blood Group AB Has?

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Has AB Antigens On The Red Blood Cells With No Antibodies In The Plasma

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Blood Group O Has?

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Has No Antigens On The Red Blood Cells With Anti-A & Anti-B Antibodies In The Plasma

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Multifactorial Disorders

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Genetic Component and significant environmental component

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Dominant Disorder Example

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Huntingtons Disease (FATAL)

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What is Huntington’s Disease

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Neurons In Brain Cell Degenerate

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Dominant Disorder

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Some human genetic disorders are dominant

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