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X-men gained their powers from this term meaning a change in their DNA code
mutation
Total number of chromosomes you would see in a human karyotype
46
The phase of the cell cycle preceding mitosis. It is also when the cell grows and replicates its DNA
Interphase
Proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection
darwin
The term for making copies of DNA and a board game where you remove organs from a patient with tweezers
replication and operation
Name a Christmas carol that shares a word in its title with a type of mutation that causes no change to the amino acid sequence
Silent Night
Multiply the number of different nucleotides found in RNA by the number of gametes produced by 1 cell in meiosis
16
The molecule that binds the okazaki fragments together
ligase
Helped discover the shape of dna through x-ray crystallography
Franklin
The nitrogenous base that attaches to thymine and a fluid used to power vehicles
adenine and gasoline
Korean pop group BTS had a hit song that shared its name with this type of nucleic acid
DNA
the probability that parents who are both carriers of a condition have 3 kids and all 3 inherit the condition
1/64
When humans choose to breed certain organisms together to make a certain trait more extreme in that species
artificial selection
His work with pea plants where vital to creating the foundations of genetics
Mendel
A term for multiple genes found on the same chromosome and the rock musician referred to as "the boss"
linked genes and springsteen
The company that owns facebook; also the phase of mitosis where the chromosomes line up in the middle
meta
AaBb x AaBb: what fraction of the kids will be dominant for both traits
9/16
A body part that is now useless, but was important earlier in the evolutionary history of the organism
A vestigial organ
The duo who were credited with the discovery of the shape of DNA despite their malfeasance
Watson and Crick
The bird Darwin studied to learn about variation and an imperial unit of measurement for distance
Finch and Inch
2009 sci-fi horror movie staring Adrien Brody that shares its name with the term for removing introns
Splice
a polypeptide has 25 amino acids. Ignoring the cap and tail, how many nucleotides did the mature mRNA producing this polypeptide have
75 (78 if you counted the stop codon)
Term describing a trait that is controlled by the combination of several genes
Polygenic
economist who recognized the tendency for populations to grow exponentially would lead to competition for resources
Malthus
A term for a heterozygous person that has an allele for a recessive condition and a term for a a type of island that is long, narrow and runs parallel to the mainlaind (eg ocean city)
Carrier and barrier