Under a powerful microscope, DNA appears in the shape of a _____
What is a double helix?
100
A trait that can be overshadowed by a dominant trait is this.
What is a recessive trait?
100
Perfect genetic copies of an organism are known as _______.
What are clones?
100
A ______ trait is defined by it's ability to overcome recessive traits at a genetic level.
What is dominate?
100
A person who has this gene, and is able to pass it onto their offspring, but exhibits no symptoms of the mutation themselves, they are called this.
What is a carrier?
200
DNA is stored in the nucleus of cells, in containers called ______.
What are chromosomes?
200
An offspring that is genetically identical to the parent is always the product of this.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
A prime example of genetic engineering, and the most contraversial, would be the incident where a team of scientists edited the genetic information of a fish in order to make it:
What is "Glow in the dark"?
200
A gamete is unique, in that it has ____ the normal amount of chromosomes that a normal cell has.
What is half?
200
Hemophilia is a terrible disease caused by genetic deformities, which prevents the blood from _____.
What is clotting?
300
The scientific term for the process of copying DNA is _______.
What is replication?
300
The main difference between DNA and RNA is that RNA is ____-stranded.
What is single?
300
The very first animal to be cloned was _____.
Who is Dolly the Sheep?
300
He is known as the "Father of Genetics" for his work with selective breeding in pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
300
Down syndrome is caused by this genetic deformity:
What is an extra chromosome?
400
When DNA splits, the two individual strands that become new molecules are known as ________.
What are templates?
400
The genetic codes of each parent are stored in cells called _____, which have half the number of chromosomes as average cells.
What are gametes?
400
An unfortunate side effect of the cloning is that the clones are _____, meaning that they cannot reproduce.
What is sterile?
400
An organism's complete genetic makeup is their ______.
What is genotype?
400
A person who exhibits both male and female traits, due to having an extra X chromosome, is called this:
What is a hermaphrodite?
500
DNA is made up of four types of subunits, which are designated by four letters: __,__,__, and__.
What is A, G, C, and T?
500
What is the scientific term for the creation of a whole new set of genes when the sperm and egg meet?
What is genetic recombination?
500
In the future, vaccinations may contain genetically modified viruses, that are not ______.
What is infectious?
500
A person's _____ is the complete set of observable traits in an organism.