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Vocab Schmocab
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XX or XY.
What is XX means you're a girl, XY means you're a boy?
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Chromosome 21.
What is a person with Down's Syndrome has an extra copy?
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Developing organisms with desired traits, like 5 different veggies from one plant.
What is selective breeding?
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The three ways it can happen.
What are substitution, addition, or deletion?
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What your doctor will use to trace your family history back correctly with this.
What is a pedigree?
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Many genes.
What is your skin color is controlled by many genes?
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A description of cystic fibrosis.
What is a human who produces abnormally thick mucus in the lungs, making it hard to breath?
200
To get a bigger turkey, you must do this.
What is inbreed the turkeys who are fat, plump, and have a lot more meat?
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Who is Tim and what is Tim's Place?
Who is a person with Down's Syndrome that is living a happy, healthy, and successful life - like owing a restaurant?
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Dolly was this. Second chance was this.
What is clone?
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Mendelian means this.
What is a single gene, with two alleles?
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Where the name sickle comes from.
What is the shape of the blood cell looks like a sickle, a farming tool use to cut wheat..... waaayyyyyyy back in the day?
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Hybridization.
What is crossing two genetically different individuals?
300
Two ways someone can be helped/get help with a mutation.
What is research/gene therapy in the lab? What are support groups/fund raisers/raising awareness?
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Corn.
What is an example of selective breeding?
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Carrier.
What is a person who has one recessive allele and one dominant allele?
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Factor.
What is the medicine someone with hemophilia has to take because their body lacks blood platelets?
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The hope that people with genetic disorders have, thanks to possible technology.
What is a cure through gene therapy?
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A mutation with a neutral result. A mutation with negative restult.
What are cats with an extra paw - no harm at all? What are genetic disorders, like sickle cell anemia, which can cause difficult lives?
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Bananas.
What is an example of inbreeding?
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All the types of blood.
What are A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-, O+, O-?
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Every option you can draw on a pedigree and what they mean.
What is a circle is a girl, a square is a boy? A connecting line means marriage or offspring? A filled in box/circle means they have the genetic trait/disorder? An empty means they don't? A half filled in one means they are a carrier?
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2 pros and 2 cons of genetically modified foods.
What is...... lots of options from your lists?
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What the numbers, 23, 46 mean.... and 3 of 21 mean.
What is you get 23 chromosomes from mom/dad, that make a total of 46... and if you have 3 of the 21st chromosome you have Down's Syndrome?
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Allele. Gene. Chromosome. DNA.
What is allele is the letter (x, y, A, a)? What is gene is the combo of that Aa, XY? What is chromosomes is 1 of 46 that each human has, holding many genes? What is DNA is ALLLL OF THEM in one spot?