Lecture 16

Question 1

Mendelian inheritance

Answer 1

Refers to certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

Question 2

Embryology

Answer 2

The study of the differentiation of a single-celled fertilized egg into a complex multicellular organism

Question 3

Evolutionary developmental biology

Answer 3

the comparative study of organismal development and how it has evolved

Question 4

EVO DEVO

Answer 4

Discovery of the genes which regulate embryonic development in eukaryotes

Question 5

Fate map

Answer 5

Detailed geomapping of the embryo surface: determines where all structures will form on the developing zygote

Question 6

Deep homology

Answer 6

The idea that many genes are shared across all eukaryotes and must have evolved in the first eukaryotes

Question 7

Homeobox

Answer 7

a DNA sequence found within genes that regulates developmental processes in animals, fungi, and plants

Question 8

Redundant genes

Answer 8

two or more genes are performing the same function

Question 9

Melanism

Answer 9

Color form where the individual is entirely black