Heredity
These are influenced by multiple genes plus a context—a set of environmental factors.
What is a trait?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
A mixture of soap, salt, and water used to extract DNA.
What is an extraction solution?
A characteristic of a human's _________ would be that they are right-handed
What is Phenotype?
This version of reproduction has the most genetic diversity.
What is sexual reproduction?
The twisted shape that helps DNA to pack its long molecules into very tiny spaces.
What is a double-helix?
This needs to be extremely cold to extract DNA in the lab.
What is rubbing alcohol?
Forensic scientists use this DNA pattern of human's to try and solve crimes.
What is a genotype?
The process in sexual reproduction where genetic material (DNA) is broken apart and rearranged, creating new combinations of genes or alleles, leading to genetic diversity in offspring and populations.
What is recombination?
Adenine and Thymine
Cytosine and Guanine
What are nucleotide base pairs?
Gently mashing up strawberries in soap.
How you break apart DNA for a strawberry extraction?
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What is a genotype?
A specific variation of a gene. In asexual reproduction, the parent makes and identical copy.
What is an allele?
This is found in the nucleus of every cell.
What is DNA?
Octoploid cells are easy to break open. They have eight copies of each chromosome.
What is are strawberry cells?
The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
What is a phenotype?