Vocabulary Chapter 9

Question 0

Genetically determined classes of human blood that are based on the presence or absence of carbohydrates a and B on the surface of red blood cells

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ABO blood groups

Question 1

The fusion of sperm and egg derived from two different individuals.

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Cross-fertilization

Question 2

A form of human dwarfism caused by a single dominant allele

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Achondroplasia

Question 3

An alternative version of a gene

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Allele

Question 4

A technique for diagnosing genetic defects while a fetus is in the uterus

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Amniocentesis

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An individual who is heterozygous for a recessively inherited inherited disorder and he therefore does not show symptoms of that disorder but may pass on the recessive allele to offspring

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Carrier

Question 6

A technique for diagnosing genetic defects while a fetus is in an early development stage within the uterus

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Chorionic villus sampling

Question 7

Hey basic principle in biology stating that genes are located on chromosomes and that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis accounts for inheritance patterns

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Chromosome theory of inheritance

Question 8

Inheritance pattern in which a heterozygote expresses the district trait in both alleles

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Codominant

Question 9

A type of inheritance in which the phenotypes of the heterozygote and dominant homozygote are indistinguishable

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Complete dominance

Question 10

Hey mating of two sexually reproducing individuals

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Cross

Question 11

A genetic disease that occurs in people with two copies of a certain recessive allele

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Cystic fibrosis

Question 12

An experimental mating of individuals different at two genetic loci

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Dihybrid cross

Question 13

The allele that determines the phenotype of a gene when the individual is heterozygous for that gene

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Dominant allele

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A human genetic disease caused by a sex linked recessive allele

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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The offspring of two parental individuals

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F1 generation

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The offspring of the F1 generation F2 stands for second filial

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F2 generation

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Genetic makeup of an organism

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Genotype

Question 18

A human genetic disease caused by a sex-linked recessive allele

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Hemophilia

Question 19

Having two different alleles for one given gene

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Heterozygous

Question 20

Having two identical alleles for one given gene

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Homozygous

Question 21

A human genetic disease caused by a dominant allele

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Huntington’s disease

Question 22

The offspring of parents of two different species or of two different varieties of one species

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Hybrid

Question 23

A heritable feature that varies among individuals within apopulation, such as flower color in pea plants or eye color in humans.

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Character