An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes or chromosomes.
What is a genetic disorder?
100
The genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively.
What is Human inheritance?
100
selective breeding, cloning, and genetic engineering
What are methods for developing organisms with desirable traits?
100
A disorder in which the body produces abnormally thick mucus in the lungs and intestines.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
100
A preserved remain or trace of an organism that lived in the past.
What is a fossil?
200
Affects Hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
What is Sickle-cell Disease?
200
There genes are controlled by one gene and multiple alleles.
What happens when a person has multiple alleles?
200
The process of selecting organisms with desired traits from parent to next generation.
What is selective breeding?
200
A sex linked disorder in which a persons blood clots very slowly or not at all.
What is Hemophilia?
200
A similar group of organisms.
What is a Species?
300
A chart or family tree that tracks which members of a family have a particular trait
What is a pedigree?
300
One of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in each body cell
What is a sex chromosome?
300
When breeders cross two genetically different individuals.
What is hybridization?
300
When a person has an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is down syndrome?
300
A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is an Adaptation?
400
A picture of all the chromosomes in a cell
What is a karyotype?
400
A chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross
What is a punnett square?
400
Inserting copies of a gene directly into a persons cells.
What is gene therapy?
400
Genes on the X and Y chromosome.
What is a sex-linked gene?
400
A gradual change in a species over time.
What is evolution?
500
Changes in the DNA of genes. changes in the overall structure or number of chromosomes.
what are two major causes of genetic disorders in humans?
500
Some human traits are controlled by single genes with two alleles, and others by single genes with multiple alleles. Still other traits are controlled by many genes that act together.
What are some patterns of inheritance in humans?
500
An organism that has exactly the same genes as the organism from which it was produced.
What is a clone? (specific answer from the book)
500
The set of information that controls a trait; a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait.
What is a gene?
500
A well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.