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1
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What biological process explains Mendel’s law?

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Meiosis

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2
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What are the products of segregation after meiosis?

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4 chromatids

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3
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What is segregation?

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A mechanism to generate variability

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4
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How many possible random segregation combinations are there for humans?

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2^23 = 8,388,608

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What is the unit of segregation?

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Chromosomes

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What is the determinant factor for male reproductive development?

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SRY gene

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7
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What are female chromosomes?

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XX

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8
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What are male chromosomes?

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XY

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9
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What would cause femaleness in XY individuals?

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Deletion of the SRY gene

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10
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What is an example of X-linked recessive?

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Colour blindness and hemophilia

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What is an example of X-linked dominant?

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Vitamin D resistant, brown teeth enamel

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12
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What do gene mutations affect?

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Typically one gene

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13
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What is a large-scale chromosome change?

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Chromosome mutation that affects many genes, leads to structural differences that can be detected using microscope

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14
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What is a karotype?

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A collection all chromosomes (with a specific number and structure) of a species or individual in condensed state

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15
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What are cytogenetics?

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Geneticists use stains to identify specific chromosomes and to analyze structures

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What is a euploid?

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Having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of a monoploid number (1n)

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What is a polyploid?

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Extra copies of each chromosome of species (>2n, diploid, triploid, tetraploid)

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What is an aneuploid?

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Abnormal number of one or more chromosomes

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What is the definition of monosomic?

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One missing chromosome compared to 2n wild type

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20
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What are the effects of polyploids?

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Part of normal development of certain tissues and organisms (human muscle tissue, bone marrow

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What are the results of monoploids?

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Part of normal development in some insects (wasps, bees), males are 1n, females are 2n

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What are the results of monosomic?

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Part of normal development in some organisms, sex determination in some nematodes (XX and XO)

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23
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What is autopolyploid?

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All chromosomes originated from the same organisms

24
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What is allopolyploid?

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One set of chromosomes originated from one organism and other from another, parent organisms need to be related to produce viable progeny

25
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Allopolyploidy in agricultural purposes

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Mixing 2 genomes can lead to new phenotypes in offspring

26
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Autopolyploidy in agricultural purposes

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Increasing ploidy levels can generate traits more valued by consumer

27
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How are autopolyploids generated naturally?

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Naturally formed by mistakes in meiosis that lead to failure in executing one of the meiotic divisions and leads to gamete with twice as many chromosomes

28
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How are autopolyploids induced/created?

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Formed by hybridization; crosses between 2 related species (mostly plants), can be formed by chemically fusing 2 cells

29
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What is the purpose of polyploid tissues in humans?

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In some tissues, cells replicate DNA in S phase but not divide, leading to formation of polyploid tissue. eg) liver, heart, bone marrow, any smooth muscle

30
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What is aneuploidy?

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The addition or loss of less than a full set of chromosomes or chromosome pairs

31
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What is monosomes?

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One missing chromosome, in humans, autosomic monosomies die in utero; only one viable monosomy (Turner syndrome)

32
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What are trisomies?

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one extra chromosome, in humans, only autosomic monosomies for large chromosomes die in utero, few viable trisomies (Klinefelter syndrome, down syndrome)

33
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Turner syndrome chromosomes

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XO

34
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Turner syndrome characteristics

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sterile females
tall, slightly feminized
poor facial hair growth
small testis, female type pubic hair

35
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Down Syndrome is also known as

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Trisomy 21

36
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Down syndrome effects which chromosome?

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21 non-disjunction/translocation

37
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What is the idea of gene dosage?

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Products of genes typically do not work in their own pathway, but interact with others to contribute to process or pathway

38
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What are some origins of chromosomal rearrangements?

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Deletions, duplications, inversion, translocation

39
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What is needed for rearrangement of chromosomes to happen?

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Should maintain most basic structure - have one centromere and two telomeres

40
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What happens after mitosis of normal chromosomes?

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Normal splitting

41
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What happens after mitosis of dicentric chromosomes?

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Break in chromosome loss, less viable

42
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What happens after mitosis of ascentric chromosomes?

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no pulling forces, missegregation or chromosome loss

43
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What are unbalanced rearrangments?

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Leads to change the gene number, can be caused by deletions and duplications, when they involve at least one gene

44
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What are balanced rearrangements?

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Does not lead to changed gene number, will be arrangements that change gene order, like inversions and reciprocal translocations

45
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What is pseudodominance?

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Recessive alleles uncovered by deletion will appear as if they are dominant, can lead to defects if deletion involves haploinsufficient genes

46
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What are the most common chromosomal rearrangements in humans?

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Translocation

47
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Translocations can cause

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New phenotypes

48
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What are proto-oncogene?

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When mutated acquires novel activity to promote cancer

49
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What is Chromothripsis?

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Genome chaos, generated clustered chromosome rearrangements are characteristic for tumor cells

50
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What is non-disjunction?

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The failure of homologs (at meiosis) or sister chromatids (at mitosis) to separate properly at opposite poles

51
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What is a frameshift mutation?

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The insertion or deletion of a nucleotide pair or pairs, causing a disruption of the translational reading frame

52
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What is translocation?

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The relocation of a chromosomal segment to a different position in the genome

53
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What is an inversion?

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A chromosomal mutation consisting of the removal of a chromosome segment, its rotation through 180°, and its reinsertion in the same location

54
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What is a dicentric chromosome?

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A chromosome with two centromeres

55
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What is euploidy?

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A complete chromosome set or an exact multiple of the haploid chromosome set

56
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What is polyploidy?

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A chromosomal complement with at least three complete sets of homologous chromosomes

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