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Genetics Study Guide
1. What is a plant that has two dominant genes or two recessive genes called?
2. The “rungs” of the DNA ladder are made up of __________.
3. What is heredity?
4. How are sex cells different from other human cells?
5. What is the name of the process for the way cells divide in asexual reproduction?
6. How does asexual reproduction relate to humans?
7. What is genetic engineering used for?
8. Some genetic disorders, such as sickle cell anemia, are due to ___________.
9. Nucleotides are made of a sugar, a phosphate, and a _______.
10. What is a phenotype?
11. A string of nucleotides that has instructions for a certain trait is a _____.
12. The diagram used to trace a trait through generations of a family is a ______.
13. What does each gene have instructions for making?
14. When a plant fertilizes itself, it is called ______________.
15. What is it called when cells are copied with half the number of chromosomes?
16. What factors have an influence on your traits?
17. Why do sex-linked disorders occur more often in males?
18. Three bases code for one ______.
19. What determines how tall you grow and whether your hair is curly or straight?
20. The different forms of a gene that decide a characteristic are known as ______
21. What do you call one set of instructions for an inherited trait?
22. The first step in making a protein is_______.
23. Each parent gives one set of these to the offspring.
24. Two forms of a gene, one from each parent, are called ______.
25. What is a string of nucleotides called?
26. What did Mendel discover about recessive traits?
27. Instructions for an inherited trait are called ______.
28. The sides of the DNA “ladder” are made of ____________.
29. What carries the genes that determine sex?
30. The complementary strand to the DNA sequence TAGTCA is __________.
31. To be copied, a DNA molecule splits ___________.
32. Using DNA to identify who committed a crime is _____________.
33. The one thing that Gregor Mendel realized could explain the results of his
experiments was that ______________________________________________.
34. What is the first step of DNA replication?
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A string of nucleotides that has information for making one trait is a______.
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What are chromosomes that carry the same sets of genes called?
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Sex-linked disorders are caused in males because they have only one ___chromosomes?
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What kind of plant produces offspring with the same traits as the parent?
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When messenger RNA is fed through the ribosome, what is it matched with?
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Three bases or one codon code for one ___.
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When mRNA leaves the nucleus what organelle doe it go to?
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If a DNA sequence reads, TACCGGAAA, what would the mRNA copy be?
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T or F: Genes contain DNA.
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T or F: DNA makes genes.
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T or F: Genes and DNA contain chromosomes.