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Definition:
An important body structure made from atoms

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Proteins

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Definition:
Composed bundles of cells, which make up small strands

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Muscles

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3
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The two proteins in muscle cells are:

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Actin and myosin

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What is the job of actin and myosin?

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Help the muscles by grabbing each other and pulling so the muscle fibers can contract

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5
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Fill in the blank:
Exercise and diet play a role in ________ _______

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building muscle

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Fill in the blank:
_______ has a large influence on musculature.

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Exercise

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Fill in the blank
Diet has a small influence on __________.

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Musculature

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8
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If the offspring is heavily muscled what might the parents be?

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Extra muscled or medium muscled

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If the offspring is typically muscled what might the parents be?

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Both of them will be typically muscled

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10
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How many chromosomes are passed down to the offspring during the fertilization of the egg and sperm?

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30 chromosomes to each

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What is called when muscle cells have two of each chromosome?

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Karyotype

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12
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What specific region of the chromosome controls how specific protein is made?

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Gene

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13
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What is the function of myostatin?

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To fit into the cell receptors of the cell

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14
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Fill in the blank:
When the myostatin fits correctly into the cell receptor ________ _________ ________.

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Muscles develop typically

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15
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Different forms of protein have different variations, like _____ ______ _____ _______ ________.

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Extra-big or typically muscled

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16
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Different versions of a gene are called _______.

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Alleles

17
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What determines the proteins that gets produced, which leads to the phenotype?

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An animal genotype

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The structure of a gene has a different Helio causing different shaped myosin protein. What is the result in those animals phenotypes?

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Heavily muscled

19
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Partial myostatin protein does not fit into receptors on cells, so no message is sent causing want to happen?

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Animals to have extra big muscles

20
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The mix of partial and complete myostatin proteins results in _________ _________.

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Medium-muscled

21
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The physical structure that carries genetic information

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Genetic material

22
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The instructions stored in genes for making specific proteins

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Genetic instructions

23
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What does heterozygous mean?

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Having two different alleles for a particular gene

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What does homozygous mean?

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Having two of the same alleles for a particular gene

25
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How does alleles work together in different ways? (3 Vocabulary words)

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Incomplete dominance, codominance, dominant

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An allele that is only expressed when a dominant allele is present

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Recessive

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A small change in structure of a chromosome that can be passed on to future offspring, but was not there before.

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Mutation

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What is a genotype?

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The combination of alleles, that an organism has

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What is a phenotype?

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How a trait appears/looks within an individual organism