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Chapter 15: Chromosomal Inheritance Flashcards

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Why did Morgan study Drosophila melanogaster?

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  1. They produce many offspring
  2. A generation can be bred every two weeks
  3. They only have four pairs of chromosomes
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Wild type

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Normal phenotype

More common

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What was the key to the development of the chromosome theory of inheritance?

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Morgan’s discovery of a trait that correlated with the sex of flies

Only males had white eyes

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SRY

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Sex determining region on the Y

Responsible for development of the testes in an embryo

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Common x-linked recessive disorders

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Color blindless

Muscular dystrophy

Hemophilia

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Barr body

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Only one of two x chromosomes is used

The inactivated x chromsome condenses into a Barr body

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Linked genes

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Genes located on the same chromsome that tend to be inherited together

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What did morgan find about linked genes?

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Body color and wing size are usually inherited together

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Genetic recombination

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The production of offspring with combinations of traits differing from either parent

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When is a 50% frequency of recombination observed?

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Any two genes on different chromosomes

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Variation factors

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Recombinant chromosomes (caused by crossing over)

Random fertilization

All increases genetic variation with natural selection works upon

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Genetic map

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Ordered list of the genetic loci along a particular chromosome

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What did Sturtevant predict?

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The farther apart two genes are, the higher the probability that crossing over will occur and therefore have a higher recombination frequency

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Map units

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Distance between genes

Centimorgan or map unit=1% recomonbination frequency

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How did Sturtevant find linkage groups?

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Saw that genes clustered into four groups of linked genes

Provided additional evidence that genes are on chromosomes

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Plants and genetic changes

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They tolerate them much better than animals

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Nondisjunction

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Pairs of homologous chromosomes do not separate normally during meiosis

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Aneuploidy

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Results from the fertilization of gametes in which nondisjunction occurred

All offspring do not have the correct number of a particular chromsome

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Monosomic

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Zygote has only one copy of a particular chromosome

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Trisomic

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Zygote has three copies of particular chromsome

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Polyploidy

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Condition in which an organism had more than two complete sets of chromosomes

Ex: Triploidy and tetreploidy

Polyploids are common in plants

More normal in appearance than aneuploidy

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Deletion

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Removes a chromosomal segment

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Duplication

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Repeats a segment

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Inversion

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Reverses orientation of a segment within a chromosome

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Translocation

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Moves a segment from one chromosome to another

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Syndrome

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a specific set of symptoms

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Down syndrome

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An aneuploid condition that results from three chromsome 21s

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XXX females

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Aneuploids

Completely healthy

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Klinefelter syndrome

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XXY extra chromosome in males

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XO females

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Turner syndrome (monosomy x)

Females are sterile

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What is the only viable monosomy?

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X0

45-X

Turner syndrome

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Translocations of chromsomes…

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can cause certian cancers

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Two execptions to normal Mendelian genetics

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  1. Chromosomes located in the nucleus

2. Genes located outside the nucleus

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Genomic imprinting

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Silencing of certain genes depending on which parent passes them on

Result of methylation (CH3)

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Result of methylation

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Genomic imprinting

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What is important about genomic imprinting?

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Has to be reversible so you dont have individuals with completely silenced genes after meiosis

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Extranuclear genes

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Found in organelles

Ex: mitochondria and chloroplasts

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How are extranuclear genes inherited?

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Maternally

Zygote’s cytoplasm comes from the egg

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First evidence of extranuclear genes

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Patches of color on leaves

Chloroplast genes

40
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Defects in mitochondrial genes

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Can prevent cells from making enough ATP

Affects muscular and nervous systems

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Autosomal genes

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Regular chromosomes

Not sex linked or anything

42
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What do crossovers cause?

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Recombination

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Why can’t we use map units for physical distances?

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Frequency of crossing over varies

44
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Philadelphia

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Chromosome 22

45
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Where does down syndrome come from?

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Nondisjunction in either parent in gamete cell production

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Theory of inheritance

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Genes are at specific loci on the chromosome and in turn segregate during meiosis

47
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Non-reciprocal crossover

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Deletion and duplication

48
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XIST gene

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Activated only one x chromosome on females

49
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Inversion on chromsome

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abnormal gametes may be found

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