Mitosis
What is the phase of the cell cycle where chromosomes align in the center of the cell?
What is Metaphase?
What type of cell division results in the formation of gametes?
What is meiosis?
What is a Punnett square used for?
How to predict the probable offspring of a genetic cross?
What process creates proteins from mRNA?
What is translation?
How are DNA fragments separated in gel electrophoresis?
Larger pieces of DNA don't travel as far as smaller pieces.
DNA is negatively charged and will migrate through the gel towards the positive end.
Restriction enzymes are used to cut the DNA before it travels through the gel.
In which phase of mitosis do chromatids separate and move towards opposite poles?
What is anaphase?
How many divisions occur in meiosis?
What are two rounds of division?
What term describes an organism's genetic makeup?
What is the organism's genotype?
What is the first step in protein synthesis called?
What is transcription?
Explain how gel electrophoresis is used in forensic science.
DNA after being "ran" through the gel, will have a unique pattern to it. DNA left at the crime scene can be compared to different suspects to determine relatives or who the perp is.
What is the result of mitosis?
What are two diploid cells?
What are homologous chromosomes?
What are chromosomes that are the same size and code for the same sets of traits?
What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?
Genotype-genetic makeup of alleles. (RR)
Phenotype-what you physically see (red)
Where does protein synthesis occur in the cell?
What is the ribosome?
How can CRISPR help us as a species?
CRISPR can be used to remove mutations in DNA.
Define cytokinesis.
What is the ability of a stretched cell with two nuclei to split into two separate cells?
What is crossing over and when does it occur?
What is how the chromosomes pair up during prophase 1 of meiosis and actually swap some genetic information?
How do dominant and recessive alleles interact in genetics?
The dominant allele masks or covers up the recessive allele.
What are the three types of RNA involved in protein synthesis?
What is mRNA?
What is rRNA?
What is tRNA?
What is a true GMO?
GMO Salmon.
Round up ready- Corn or Soybeans.
Transgenic Wheat.
Bt-Cotton.
Bioluminescent Fish with Jellyfish DNA.
How does mitosis differ from meiosis?
What are diploid vs. haploid cells?
What are 2 vs. 4 daughter cells?
What is asexual vs. sexual reproduction?
What is non-disjunction and how does it relate to meiosis?
What is how the chromosomes fail to separate correctly? (Organisms end up with improper numbers of chromosomes.)
How can genetic mutations impact an organism?
They can alter the DNA and therefore change the proteins that the organism will produce. Those altered proteins can be beneficial, harmful, or neither of those (not matter).
What is the role of tRNA in protein synthesis?
What is transferring amino acids to the ribosomes?
What can happen to weeds that are initially resistant to the chemical roundup when sprayed on crop fields?
Resistance to the chemical can be projected onto the offspring making roundup useless in the future.