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- Why is mendel considered the father of genetics?
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First person to cross breed
Pea Plants - Stronger trait
- Dominant
- weaker trait
- recessive
- Traits are passed from parents to offspring in....
- genes
- (blank)are two forms of genes.
- Alleles
- (blank) is the passing of traits from parents to offspring.
- heredity
- (blank)is the mathmatical chance that an event will occur.
- Probability
- What is the difference between self and cross pollination?
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Self-Pollinates itself
Cross-Transfer male pollen to another plant - Whats the difference between purebred and hybrid?
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Purebred-Same kind of parents
(both White)
Hybrid-Two different kinds of parents (one black one white) - Define Phenotype.
- Physical traits
- Define Genotype.
- Letters gene combination.
- Whats meosis?
- Division of sex cells
- What are the genotypes of boys?
- XY
- What are the genotypes of girls?
- XX
- Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
- Discovered shape of DNA molecule.(double Helix)
- What makes up chromosomes?
- DNA strands and nucleotides.
- List the parts of nucleotide.
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Sides made of sugar and phosphate.
Rungs=adenine balances with thymine and cytosine balances with guanine. - which bases pair together in a DNA molecule?
- A with T and G with C.
- What are the three steps of DNA replication?
- unzips, nitrogen Bases Match,DNA duplicates.
- What is incomplete dominance?
- Hybrid, Brown eyes with a green trait.
- What are exceptions to Mendels rule of inheritance?
- one gene can influence other traits.
- What is a mutagen?
- Causes Mutation.
- What are the three types of mutations?
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Substitution= Put in another place
Deletion=Take out base
Insertion=add to many things - What is the purpose of a genetic counselor?
- Planning for offspring traits.
- What is the importance of a pedigree?
- To help plan for offspring.
- What is selective breeding?
- Decide to mate.
- What is Genetic engineering?
- Breed to make new medicines and food.
- What is the genetic Disorder for cell mutation?
- Sickle cell
- What is the genetic Disorder for Chromosome mutation?
- Down syndrome
- What is the genetic Disorder for genetic diseases?
- Tay Sacks and Cystic Fibrosis
- What is the genetic Disorder for sex cell mutation?
- Color Blindness.
- How are evolution and adaption related?
- Evolution is how things change over time and adaption is how they change to their environment.
- Define Species.
- The most specific Level of classification.
- What level of the earth are most of the fossils found in?
- Sedimentary.
- What is the importance of a fossil record?
- Shows how evolution and adaption occurred.
- What is a vestigial structure? Give an Example.
- An extra bone or part that shows evolution. The hip bone in a whale.
- What similarities in structure have scientists found through observations?
- The bones in human hands, cat paws, and whale fins.
- What did Charles Darwin do?
- He showed evolution with his finches. He showed people about the adaption made of the animals on the Galapagos.
- What are paleontologists?
- People that look for clues to reconstruct the past.
- Compare relative and absolute dating of fossils.
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Relative-Age found from where they lay in the lock.
Absolute-Measuring the ratio of unstable atoms to the stable ones in a lab. - What is Cyanobacteria?
- A photosynthetic organism that gives life oxygen.
- List three characteristics of primates?
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opposable thumbs
Binocular vision
mammal - Define classification.
- The arrangement of organisms into orderly groups.
- How is taxonomy different from classification?
- Taxonomy is only the classification of living things.
- List the seven levels of classification.
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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species - Name the five kingdoms with an example of one of the organisms in the kingdom.
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Monera-One cell bacteria
Protista-Euglena
Fungi- Mold
Plantae-Algae
Animals-Humans -
Does Genus or species come first?
Which one is capitalized? -
Genus then species
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