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Complex Inheritance and Human Heredity
Section 3 Chromosomes and Human Heredity
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Organize Information Make a list of some physical characteristics
that appear in your family members or friends. Try to determine
how each trait is inherited by examining its inheritance pattern.
Review
Vocabulary
Use your book or dictionary to define mitosis.
mitosis
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Vocabulary
Use your book or dictionary to define the following terms.
nondisjunction
Define karyotype and describe its use. Then make a sketch of a
human karyotype in the space below.
karyotype
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Karyotype
Studies
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Sequence how a scientist makes a karyotype.
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Compare and contrast karyotype studies and pedigrees by writing
characteristics in the Venn diagram.
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Karyotypes
Telomeres
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Pedigrees
Describe telomeres by completing the paragraph.
Telomeres are made of
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Section 3 Chromosomes and Human Heredity
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Nondisjunction
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Model a picture showing the ways that nondisjunction during
meiosis can produce a sex cell with an extra copy of a chromosome.
Fetal Testing
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Summarize the following facts about fetal testing.
• three fetal tests that can identify chromosomal abnormalities
• four possible results of nondisjunction in sex chromosomes
S UMM ARIZE
Analyze how nondisjunction during meiosis could lead to
Klinefelter’s syndrome.
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Model a karyotype of a boy with Down syndrome.