Mutations
What is the idea that errors are made in DNA
Mutations
What is the every single gene in the organism
genome
What is the term for all the genes in a population
gene pool
What is a gene that is "normal" before its cancer
proto - oncogene
What do you call a biologist's self portrait
a cell-fie
What kind of frameshift mutation will move everything downstream
insertion
What kind of enzyme is used in sequencing
Restrictive enzyme
What is the idea that genes go back and forth in a population
Gene flow
What type of therapy uses medicine to treat cancer?
chemotherapy
Why do plants hate algebra?
It gives them square roots
what kind of frameshift mutation will move everything upstream
deletion
What Genetic engineering is used to get the exact strands of DNA you wish
DNA sequencing
When one trait starts to become very abundant, it usually means what changed drastically
allele frequency
What kind gene is responsible for stopping tumor growth
tumor suppressor gene
What's a skeleton's least favorite room?
The living room
What kind of mutation will not shift the frame
substitution
What are the 3 steps to PCR
Heating
Splitting
Repairing
founder effect
What gene, when mutated, stops cancer development
oncogenes
Why did the physicist break up with the biologist
There was no chemistry
What kind of mutation causes aneuploidy
nondisjunction
What enzyme is used in PCR
DNA Polymerase
What is the idea that there is a maximum number of possible combinations in a population
Genetic variation
When cancer is metastatic is means it is what
malignant
Why did the cell fail the math test?
It multiplied by dividing