Genetics
Terms
Inheritance
Brain Busters
Random
100
This process creates new & identical cells.
What is mitosis?
100

What is gel electrophoresis?

What is a different form of the same gene?

100
What is a trait?
What is a specific characteristic or feature exhibited by an organism?
100
Why is the word homologous used to describe chromosome pairs, rather than the word identical?
Homologous chromosomes are pairs of chromosomes that appear similar, in terms of length and other characteristics but they are not identical to each other.
100
One snapdragons in P generation is red and the other is white. What will the F1 generation outcome colour be?
What is pink?
200
This process creates sperm & egg.
What is meiosis?
200

What is cloning?

What is the process of producing genetically identical organisms?

200

Mendelian Genetics ?

What is Pea Plant?

200
Why are vectors important in cloning?
Vectors act as carriers of the DNA to be cloned so that the DNA can be copied in a foreign cell.
200
One person has brown eyes and the other has blue eyes. Who has the dominant eye colour and who has recessive eye colour?
What is brown = dominant, blue = recessive?
300
Four stages in Mitosis. (In Order)
What is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase?
300
What is sexual reproduction?
What is reproduction that requires two parents and produces genetically distinct offspring?
300
What is Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis?
What is genetic testing that is done before the embryo is implanted in the uterus checking for any genetic disorders?
300
List the three types of cloning?
What is gene cloning, therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning?
400
What are the complementary base pairs?
What is A-T and G-C?
400
What is haploid?
Haploid - half the number of chromosomes
400
What is the differences between dominant and recessive?
Dominant - the form of a trait that always appears when an individual has an allele for it. Recessive - the form of a trait that only appears when an individual has two alleles for it.
400
Distinguish between the terms phenotype and genotype?
What is the combination of the alleles and the physical traits of an organism?
500
Genotype describes the genes of an organism and __________________ describes the way an organism looks.
What is phenotype?
500

What is reproductive cloning?

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500
What was Mendel's ratio for F2 generation?
What is 3:1?
500
A goat that has both red and white hair but its presented in patches. What is that Codominance, Incomplete Dominance or crossing over?
What is Codominance?
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