What is melanin?
What is a dark brown to black pigment occurring in the hair, skin, and iris of the eye in people and animals.
What is "transcription" of DNA?
What is the process by which a cell makes an RNA copy of a piece of DNA
Are mutations are random?
What is yes, mutationsare random?
What is evolution?
What is the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
Where do your traits come from?
What is from your mother and your father
What causes melania?
What is race and amount of sunlight exposure.
What is a codon?
Are mutations always harmful?
What is no, mutations can either be beneficial, harmful, or neutral
Is evolution a random process?
What is no
What is the probablity that the offspring gets the dominate trait?
What is 100% chance that the offspring gets the dominate trait
Why do people that live near the equator normally have darker skin?
What is there is more exposure the the sun which increses your melin which cuase darker skin
What is a "strand" of DNA?
What is two long polynucleotide chains composed of four types of nucleotide subunits
What are the 4 main types of mutations?
What is substitution, deletion, insertion, and translocation.
Are all species related?
What is yes, all species are related
What are the 3 types of genotypes
What is homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive, and hetrozygous.
What is the name of the skin cell that produces melanin?
What is melanocytes
What information is coded into DNA?
What is the instructions for all the proteins the organism will ever synthesize
What cuases mutations?
What is errors in DNA replication or from the damaging effects of mutagens, such as chemicals and radiation
WHat are the 4 main points of evolution?
What is Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time and Adaptation (VISTA)
What determines how much I look like my parents?
What is chromosomes carrying genes
What 3 things does melanin determine?
What is eye, hair and skin color
When do cells duplicate their DNA?
WHat is during mitosis
What mutations will not result in a change to the amino acid sequence of a protein?
What is silent mutation
Is evolution is a scientifically valid theory?
What is yes, evolution is a fact and a well-supported scientific theory
What is the difference between transcription and translation?
What is the process by which DNA is copied to RNA is called transcription, and that by which RNA is used to produce proteins is called translation.