Genetics Flashcards
1
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Inherited characteristics
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Include types of ear lobe, eye colour, shape of nose etc
2
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Non-inherited characteristic
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Have gained during a persons lifetime
3
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Chromosome
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Thread like structures found in the nucleus of a cell
4
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Chromosome are made
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Of DNA and protein
5
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Human body cells contain
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23 pairs of chromosomes
6
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Genes are chemicals
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Found on chromosomes that carry information from parents to their children
7
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Genes are made of
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DNA and they control inherited characteristics
8
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Genetics
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The study of the inheritance of characteristics
