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Chapter 5 (Excluding 5.3) Flashcards

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1
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What plant did Gregor Mendel use for his experiments?

A

He choose Pea plants (Pisum Sativum)

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Why was Gregor Mendel’s choice of pea plants a good one?

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  • Readily available
  • Short generation time
  • Showed many traits
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What is a trait?

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A specific characteristic or feature exhibited by an organism (such as flower colour of a plant)

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What does it mean to self-fertilize?

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The same plant provides the male and female gamete

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5
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What does true breeding/pure breeding mean?

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An organism that exhibits the same traits generation after generation

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How did Gregor Mendel control his pea plant experiments?

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He selectively fertilized a female gamete with a specific male gamete in a process called a cross

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What is a Cross also referred as?

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Cross-pollination

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Describe the steps in Gregor Mendel’s experiments

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  1. Used pure breeding ( genetically identical) lines of peas and looked at 7 different traits
  2. Crosses a pure breeding plant with a plant of the opposite trait (white x purple). Called this P generation
  3. Recorded data on offspring called First Filial (F1)
  4. Self pollinated F1
  5. Recorded data on offspring; Second Filial (F2)
  6. Always 3:1 ratio
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What is a Monohybrid cross?

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A cross of 2 individuals that differ by one trait

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What is the Mendelian ratio?

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The ratio of 3:1 in the F2 generation

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What is the Law of Segregation?

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Says that traits are determined by pairs of alleles that segregate during meiosis so that each gamete receives one allele

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What are alleles?

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Different forms of a gene and diploid organisms have 2 alleles for each trait

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What else does the Law of segregation say about pairs of pairs of alleles?

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One allele is dominant, while another is said to be recessive

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What does Dominant mean?

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The form of a trait that always appears when an individual has an allele for it (only one is needed to show trait)

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What does Recessive mean?

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The form of a trait that only appears when an individual has 2 alleles for it

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What else does the Law of Segregation say?

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  • Inherited traits are determined by 2 alleles of a gene
  • These 2 alleles segregate into each gamete of the parents during meiosis
  • Each gamete contains one of the alleles
  • When fertilized, each offspring has one allele from each parent (total of 2)
  • The trait expressed will depend on they inherit dominant or recessive alleles
17
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What does expression of the recessive trait require?

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An individual needs to have 2 alleles for the trait (only recessive)

18
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What is a genotype?

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The combination of alleles in an organization (Ex. Yy, yy, YY)

19
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What is a Phenotype?

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The physical and physiological traits of an organism. The expression of a genotype is called the phenotype

20
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What does it mean to be Homozygous for a trait?

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An individual has 2 identical alleles for that trait (Ex. YY or yy)

21
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What does it mean to be Heterozygous for a trait?

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An individual has 2 different alleles for a gene (Ex. Yy)

22
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What are used to analyze the results of crosses?

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Punnett Squares (Made by Reginald Punnett)

23
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What do Punnett Squares do?

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Uses Mendel’s Law of Segregation to show all possible offspring that could be formed from the gametes of the parents

24
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What do the 4 squares in a Punnett Square represent?

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They represent the 4 possible combinations and the chance of each of them occurring (each square represents 1/4 or 25%)

25
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What is a Dihybrid Cross?

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A cross of 2 individuals that differ in 2 traits due to 2 different genes, each consisting of non-identical alleles

26
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What were Mendel’s results when he conducted his Dihybrid cross experiment?

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He always received the same ratio of 9:3:3:1

27
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What is the Law of Independent Assortment?

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States that during gamete formation, alleles for one gene segregate or assort independently of the alleles for other genes during gamete formation

28
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What theory did Sutton propose?

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He proposed the Chromosome theory of inheritance

29
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What is the chromosome theory of inheritance?

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Traits are determined by genes inherited through movement of chromosomes during meiosis

30
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What did Sutton realize were related to Mendel’s pea plant results?

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Chromosomes

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What does the Chromosome theory of inheritance state?

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  1. Genes are carried on chromosomes

2. Chromosomes provide basis for law of segregation and law of independent assortment

32
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Who developed the theory of inheritance?

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Gregor Mendel

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