Traits that disappear in the F1 generation but reappear in the F2 generation.
What are recessive traits?
100
The theory discovered in the 20th century that determined that Mendelian genes are located on chromosomes and separate during meiosis.
What is the chromosomal theory of inheritance?
100
The scientist that used X-ray crystallography to determine the width and helical structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
100
The kind of RNA made in transcription.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
100
The name of large, artificial chromosomes used in genomic or cDNA libraries.
What are BACs?
200
The percentage of offspring that are white in a cross between heterozygous and a homozygous plants, both with purple flowers.
What is zero percent?
200
Equal to 1 percent recombination between two genes.
What is 1 centimorgan (cM)?
200
The term that describes DNA strands running in opposite directions.
What is antiparallel?
200
The mRNA produced from the template DNA strand below.
3' TACGCGATT 5'
What is 5' AUGCGCUAA 3'?
200
The technique that requires repeated rounds of heating (denature) and cooling (add primers and nucleotides) to make large amounts of a certain set of DNA.
What is PCR?
300
The rule that states that probabilities of two simulataneous events should be multiplied together.
What is the multiplication rule?
300
The percentage of colorblind offspring produced in an X-linked cross between a heterozygous female and a colorblind man.
What is 50 percent?
300
The enzyme that lays new DNA nucleotides in the 5' to 3' direction.
What is DNA polymerase III?
300
The useless sections of a eukaryotic mRNA that need to cut out before it can go through translation.
What are introns?
300
The purpose for silencing genes using the RNAi or another technique.
What is the function of a gene?
400
The term that is described as two or more genes producing one phenotype.
What is epistasis?
400
Genomic imprinting, or mitochondrial or chloroplast inheritance are forms of this non-normal type of inheritance.
What is non-Mendelian inheritance?
400
This type of chromatin is highly condensed.
What is heterochromatin?
400
The stage of translation where the small and large units of the ribosome attach to an mRNA.
What is the initiation stage?
400
A type of cell that can become any other specialized cell.
What is an embryonic stem cell (ES)?
500
The gametes produced from an individual with the genotype AaBb.
What are AB, Ab, aB, ab?
500
The resulting chromosome numbers (in terms of n) in each gamete if nondisjunction occurs in one cell during meiosis II.
What are n, n, n+1, n-1?
500
The complementary strand of the DNA sequence below.
5' TTAAGCGCT 3'
What is 3' AATTCGCGA 5'?
500
The kind of mutation that causes no change to amino acids produced in translation.
What is a silent mutation?
500
The industry that uses genetic engineering to produce insulin, growth hormone, vaccines, and other drugs.