Genetics and Variation - Half Term 1 (9Aa, 9Ab, 9Ac) Flashcards

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What is environmental variation?

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Variation caused by an organism’s surroundings, including abiotic factors (e.g. temperature, light) and biotic factors (e.g. competition, predators)

Examples:
- piercings, clothing, weight

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What is genetic variation? (Also known as inherited variation)

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Variation caused by an organism’s genes, passed down from the parents

Examples:
- hair colour
- eye shape
- blood group

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What is a species?

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A group of living organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile young/offspring

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The surroundings of an organism are called its _______________

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Environment

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What are characteristics?

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Distinctive biological traits or features of the organism

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What is the difference between an environmental factor and a physical environmental factor?

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An environmental factor can be abiotic or biotic, but a physical environmental factor can only be abiotic

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What is a resource?

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A substance or object in the environment required by an organism for normal growth, maintenance and reproduction

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What is the environment?

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All living and non-living elements by which an organism is surrounded

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What is an abiotic factor?

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Non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment

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What is a biotic factor?

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A living organism that shapes its environment

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What is continuous variation?

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A characteristic that changes gradually over a range of values (e.g. height)

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What is discontinuous variation?

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A characteristic that comes in groups rather than a range (e.g. blood group)

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What is classification?

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The process of arranging organisms into groups based on similar characteristics

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How should discontinuous variation be shown in a graph?

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  • bar chart
  • spaces in between the bars
  • no ‘normal distribution’ curve
  • group along x axis
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How should continuous variation be shown in a graph?

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  • histogram
  • no spaces in between the bars
  • a ‘normal distribution curve’
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What is a gamete?

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It is a sex cell - sperm for males and eggs for females

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17
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How many chromosomes does an egg cell have?

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23

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18
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How many chromosomes does a sperm cell have?

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23

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19
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How many chromosomes does a zygote have?

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46 in 23 pairs

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20
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How many chromosomes does an embryo have?

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46 in 23 pairs

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21
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What does DNA stand for?

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Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

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What shape does DNA take?

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Coiled double helix (like a twisted ladder)

23
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___________ come as identical homologous pairs (except sex chromosomes)

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Chromosomes

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How many pairs of chormosomes are there in humans

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23, 46 total

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What are genes?
Genes are sections of DNA/chromosomes, and they code for a specific characteristic. They are inherited from our parents and can come in different forms known as alleles
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What is an allele?
Genes in different forms
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A long strand of DNA is made up of combinations of ___ bases
4
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What are the pairings of the bases in DNA? (hint: AGTC)
Adenine - Thymine Cytosine - Guanine
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Where are chromosomes found?
Nucleus of a cell
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True or False: One of each pair of choromosomes comes from each parent
True
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There are different versions of each gene, one is often ________ over the others
Dominant
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DNA is a _________ made from _________ joined together
monomer polymers
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DNA is a long chain (a)___________ that is made up of a combination of (b)____ DNA bases
a. molecule b. four
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What is the phosphate ion bonded to in a DNA molecule
Sugar
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What is the sugar bonded to in a DNA molecule?
Base
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What are the repeated units (monomers) of a DNA molecule named?
Nucleotides
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What are the three components of a nucleotide?
1. sugar 2. phosphate group 3. base (ATGC)
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What is the name of the base beggining with A?
Adenine
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What is the name of the base begining with T?
Thymine
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What is the name of the base begginning with C?
CytosineW
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What is the name of the base beginning with G?
Guanine
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Draw a diagram of a nucleotide
(P)\ \ ⬠Sugar (Deoxyribose) ---- |Base|
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What is a homozygous allele?
One in which the alleles are the same (e.g. aa, BB)
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What is a heterozygous allele?
One in which the alleles are different (e.g. Aa, Bb)
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Dominant alleles are shown using (capital/lowercase) letters
Capital (e.g. B for brown eyes)
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Recessive alleles are shown using (capital/lowercase) letters
Lowercase (e.g. b for blue yees)
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What is a genotype?
The genetic makeup of an organism (e.g. aa, Bb, CC)
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What is a phenotype?
The physical expression or outcome of an allele pair (e.g. blue eyes)
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What type of genotype is BB?
Homozygous dominant
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What type of genotype is bb?
Homozygous recessive
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What type of genotype is Bb?
Heterozygous
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What joins the base to the sugar?
Nitrogen atom
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What types of bonds are there between the nucelotides?
Covalent
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How are the two nucelotide chains held together?
Hydrogen bonds