Genetics

Question 1

Mendel’s Principal of Segregation?

Answer 1

1/2 of genes are passes on, one carries one allele, the other carries the other.

Question 2

gene?

Answer 2

distinct particles that stay the same from one generation to the next

Question 3

allele

Answer 3

2 copies of each gene in sex cells

Question 4

dominant allele

Answer 4

will show if paired with a recessive allele

Question 5

recessive allele

Answer 5

un expressed

Question 6

heterozygous organism

Answer 6

genes are different

Question 7

homozygous organism

Answer 7

genes are the same

Question 8

genotype

Answer 8

set of genes

Question 9

phenotype

Answer 9

observable trait

Question 10

Mendel’s Principal of Independent Assortment

Answer 10

you can get different traits from different ancestors

Question 11

How does Meiosis contribute to independent assortment?

Answer 11

crossing over between chromatids results in recombinations

Question 12

Chromasome

Answer 12

genetic info coded in carbon formed in covalent bonds

Question 13

Cause of genetic mutation

Answer 13

breaks in covalent bonds

Question 14

How does ionizing radiation damage DNA?

Answer 14

breaks covalent bonds

Question 15

Why are bone marrow and gastrointestinal cells more vulnerable to radiation?

Answer 15

reproduce more oftern

Question 16

Why do UV and Radon cause cancer?

Answer 16

damage covalent bonds