Key Area 4: Variation and Inheritance

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Combining genes from two parents contribute to

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Variation within a species

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When one gene controls a characteristic?

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It produces a different number of different phenotypes

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A discrete variation is where

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Measurements fall into distinct groups

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A discrete variation is usually represented on?

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Bar charts

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Most features on individual phenotypes are?

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Polygenic (controlled by many genes) and show continuous variation

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Continuous variation shows a range of values between a

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Minium and a maximum

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Continuous variation is usually represented on?

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Histograms

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Discrete variation are characteristics that

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Characteristics controlled by a single gene (one copy inherited from each parent) tend to have phenotypes that fall into separate categories

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A phenotype is an

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an individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color and blood type

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Genotype is

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a statement of the alleles it has for a characteristic

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The final appearance of an organism (phenotype) is the result of?

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It’s genes (genotype) and the effect of the environment

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If organisms form identical genotypes are subject to different environmental condition they can?

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Show considerable variation

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Environmentally influenced changes have minor

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Evolutionary significance as they are not passed from one generation to another

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Gene is

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A strand of DNA coding for a protein

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A gene will

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Affect the organisms appearance

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Allele is

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The forms a gene can take

eg. Pea height gene has alleles for tall and dwarf

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Dominant alleles will?

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Always show in the phenotype, it hide other allele(s) of the same gene

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Recessive alleles are

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Hidden by the dominant allele

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The genotype is

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The list of actual alleles present in an organism

Eg. AA or aa

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Homozygous are?

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Alleles that are the same

Eg. AA or aa

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Heterozygous are

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Alleles that are different

Eg. Aa or Bb

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Phenotype is

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The visible/detectable effect of the genotype

Eg. Tall or dwarf peas

an individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color and blood type

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The parental genotypes is the?

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P generation

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You can work out the p generations offspring by reading questions carefully. The offspring are referred to as

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The F1 generation

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The grandchildren or offspring of F1 are referred to as the

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F2 generation

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The crosses can be worked out using a

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Punett square

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The predicted phenotype ratio among offspring are not always

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Achieved

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The ratio is not always achieved because fertilisation is

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A random process

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polygenic inheritance?

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where a characteristic is controlled by more than one gene

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Most features of an individual pheotype are?

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Polygenic and show continuous variation

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Discrete variation is?

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when a characteristic can only fall into a certain number of distinct categories, with no intermediate forms. eg. You either have detached earlobes or attached ones.

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Continuous variation is?

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Continuous variation is a gradual change in a characteristic across a population. For example, a person’s height is a continuous variation because it can be any value between the shortest and tallest person in the world