Cells
The smallest units of life
What are cells?
The full name for DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The stage of mitosis there the chromosomes are lined up in the equator of the cell.
What is metaphase?
Diagrams that show the inheritance of particular traits over several generations
What is a pedigree?
Developed the idea of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Has a funtion of synthesizing and transporting proteins.
What is Rough ER?
An alternative form of a specific gene
What is an allele?
The final product of mitosis.
What is two identical daughter cells?
For a trait with symbols 'N' and 'n', this is the genotype of a carrier.
What is Nn?
Has a common ancestor, similar structure but different funtions.
What is homologous structures?
Site of many chemical reactions and cellular processes
What is cytoplasm?
Two components of DNA back bone.
What is phosphate group and deoxyribose sugar?
The number of chromosomes in a somatic (body) human cell.
What is 46 chromosomes?
Has the same two alleles for a trait.
What is homozygous?
When humans select desirable traits to breed.
What is artificial selection?
Organelle that produces a green pigment.
What is chloroplast?
The complimentary strand to the sqeuence ATT CGA TTG.
What is TAA GCT AAC?
The process following mitosis.
What is cytokinesis?
The mother and father don't show the trait. None of the daughters have the trait but all the sons do.
What is X-linked recessive inheritance?
VEARC
What is variation, enviroment, adaptation, reproduce and change?
States that all organisms (i.e. living things) are made up of one or more cells and new cells are created from existing cells .
What is cell theory?
The DNA strand has 30% adenine. This base makes up 20% of the DNA strand.
What is cytosine or guanine.
Used to identify chromosomal abnormalities.
What is a karyotypes?
The likelyhood a daughter will have a specific recessive X-linked trait if the mother is a carrier and the father presents the trait.
What is 50%
Two main conditions needed for fossils to form.