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Heredity Lab Flashcards

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Heredity

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The passing on of physical characteristics from parents to their off spring

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How are traits passed on?

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Through chromosomes in sperm and egg cells

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Chromosomes

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DNA strands composed of gene units

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Genes

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Chromosome sections

• contains codes for specific physical and chemical characteristics

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Define traits

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Specific physical or chemical characteristics of an individual
•passed on with chromosomes in egg and Sperm cells

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Type of traits

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Dominant

Recessive

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Dominant traits

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Always seen expressed in offspring 
•free earlobe
•hair in hands
•bent fingers
•tongue rolling
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Recessive traits

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Not always seen
•hidden traits
•not expressed

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Inheritance traits

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Many traits are inherited on pairs of genes located on separate homologous (look alike) chromosomes

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Traits inherited on pairs of genes located on separate homologous chromosomes are called

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Alleles genes

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Phenotype

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Physical appearance of an individual

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Geneotype

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Inherited gene combination for a specific trait
Two types:
•homozygous
•heterozygous

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Homozygous

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Alleles of pair have same information

DD dd

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Heterozygous

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Allele genes have different information

Dd

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What is unique about the phenotype for the human trait, red hair?

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Develops from a dominant allele on a different gene pair

•inhibits the expression of the first pair

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Somatic cells

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Make up the body structure
•most of cells that make up body structure are somatic
•contain 46 chromosomes 23 pairs

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Name two reproductive cells

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Sperm and egg

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How many chromosomes do the reproductive cells contain?

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Contain 23 chromosomes, one of each original pairs

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Haploid

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Another way to write chromosome numbers

•N=23 (only half)

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Diploid

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Meiotic division

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  • two cell divisions occur here

* go through 4 phases

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Four phases of meiosis

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Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase

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What is the final result if meiosis?

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4 daughter cells containing 23 chromosomes each
•male: 4 sperm
•female: 3 polar bodies
1 egg

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Spermatogenesis

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Process of sperm cell formation in the seminiferous tubules of the testes

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Meiosis I

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Primary spermatocytes divide to form two secondary spermatocytes
•cell duplicates chromosomes 46 to 92
•chromosome pairs separate In reduction division
•makes 46 and 46

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Meiosis II

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  • secondary spermatocytes divide into spermatids

* chromatids separate into four 23 chromosome spermatids

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Oogenesis

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Process of egg cells formed in the ovary and released at ovulation

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Stages if oogenesis

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  • oogonia cells are present from birth, only a few will develop into primary oocytes
  • meiosis I and II
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Meiosis I female

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  • first cell division prior to ovulation
  • a secondary oocyte and polar body are produced
  • chromosome pairs separate in this division
  • 46 to 2x23 chromosomes
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Meiosis II female

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  • occurs after ovulation
  • single egg cell results, secondary oocyte
  • equals 23 chromosomes and polar body with Xtra chromosomes
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Karyotyping

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  • method of observing human chromosomes
  • a picture of chromosomes is produced
  • homologous pairs are arranged together
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Chromosome types

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  • Autosomes

* sex chromosomes

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Autosomes

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Chromosome pair 1-22

•have genetic codes for most body parts

34
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Sex chromosomes

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23rd pair
•contain codes for sex of an individual
Female: XX
Male: Xy

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Use if karyotypes

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•determine sex of an individual
•determine chromosome number
•predicts phenotypes from normal or abnormal patterns
-may see missing chromosomes
-additions or deletions may be present on same chromosomes

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Non-disjunction

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Unequal separation of chromosomes during either meiosis I or meiosis II

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Autosomal non-disjunction

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Unequal separation of Autosomes chromosomes (1-22) during meiosis results in too few or two many chromosomes in sperm or egg cell

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Sex chromosome non-disjunction

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An unequal separation of the X or Y chromosomes occurs during meiosis I or II

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Turners syndrome

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45 total (only one X chromosome) 
•phenotype: female
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Fertilization

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  • union if sperm (23) and egg (23)
  • the resulting fertilized cell called zygote
  • has 46 chromosomes total
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Identical twins

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  • cells become separated early in cleavage process, each cell forming new individual
  • each has same genetic make up
  • look alike
  • monozygotic formation
  • 1 egg
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Monozygotic formation

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Coming from a single zygote

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Fraternal twins

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More than one egg, fertilized by separate sperm cell
•dizygotic
•different genetic make up
•same or opposite sex 
•multiple eggs
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Dizygotic

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2 different zygotes are formed

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