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This term directly translates to "The study of life"
What is Biology?
The research conducted in the Human Genome Project could not have been completed without knowledge of this foundation of human life.
What is DNA?
This experiment figured out how to clone human DNA
What is the Human Genome Project?
When a hypothesis is supported by experimental evidence, it transforms into this key term.
What is a theory?
Mapping that provides the first evidence that a disease or trait is linked to a parent's genes.
What is genetic mapping?
Considered the father of modern genetics, as he discovered how genes were passed from parents to offspring
Who was Gregor Mendel?
This variable is a condition that has been manipulated before an experiment
What is an independent variable?
Mapping that generates sets of overlapping DNA fragments that span regions of—or even whole—chromosomes.
What is physical mapping?
The first step for creating DNA, where the nucleus of the cell separates the two strands of DNA via a helicase
What is transcription?
This is used to make an assumption about the answer to a question
What is background research?
This ethical implication focused on the potential risk of worrying perfectly healthy people about a disease they *might* get.
What is disease detection?
The molecular structure that helps to read RNA and create proteins
What is a ribosome?
The discipline that studies the structures of the body
What is anatomy?
Gene Discovery provides opportunities for developing gene based treatment for hereditary and acquired diseases via this.
What is the Gene Therapy?
This is understood as a dominant trait, as it can be inherited from either parent
What is a heterozygous genotype?