Genetics

Question 1

How many chromosomes are in each human cell?

Answer 1

46 or 23 pairs

Question 2

True or false, chromosomes are never divided.

Answer 2

False, chromosomes are exactly duplicated every time your body makes a new cell.

Question 3

The genetic material/ the directions for an organism.

Answer 3

DNA

Question 4

What does DNA stand for?

Answer 4

Deoxyribonucleic said

Question 5

What is made of DNA?

Answer 5

Chromosomes.

Question 6

A location on a chromosome with directions for a trait.

Answer 6

Genes

Question 7

A form or type of gene

Answer 7

Allele

Question 8

What does a allele contain?

Answer 8

The directions for one articulate trait.

Question 9

How are Alleles labeled?

Answer 9

With letters of the alphabet.

Question 10

What letters are Alleles labeled with when the trait is dominant?

Answer 10

The letters are capitalized

Question 11

What type of letters used to label alleles when the trait is recessive?

Answer 11

Lower case.

Question 12

Having both of the inherited traits alleles.

EX: Tt

Answer 12

Genotype.

Question 13

If the alleles on two chromosomes are alike

Answer 13

Homozygous

Question 14

If alleles on two chromosomes are different

Answer 14

Heterozygous

Question 15

What a genotype looks like

Answer 15

Phenotype

Question 16

Chromosome

Answer 16

A structure that contains directions for many different traits