Inheritance Flashcards
1
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What is a gamete?
A
An organism’s reproductive cell (egg in female and sperm in males), which has the haploid number of chromosomes
2
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What is a genome?
A
The entire DNA of an organism
3
Q
What is a chromosome?
A
A structure found in the nucleus which is made up of a long strand of DNA.
4
Q
What is a gene?
A
A short section of DNA that codes for a protein, which contributes to a characteristic.
5
Q
What is an allele?
A
The different forms of the gene, humans have two alleles for each gene as they inherit one from each parent.
6
Q
What does homozygous mean?
A
When both inherited alleles are the same
7
Q
What does heterozygous mean?
A
When one of the inherited alleles is dominant and the other is recessive.
