Genes
DNA
Human Genome Project
Heredity
Punnett Squares
100
Traits are passed from parents to offspring through ____.
What is reproduction.
100
The meaning of the acronym DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid.
100
The _____ genome was sequenced in this project.
What is the human genome.
100
A ____ is a characteristic of something. _____ can include eye colour, eye colour, the ability to roll your tongue, and so on.
What are traits.
100
A _____ is a tool used by scientists to predict how inherited traits will be passed from the parent to the offspring.
What is a Punnett square.
200
What letters represent the code of the DNA of different genes?
What are C, A, T, and G.
200
A _____ is the described shape of DNA.
What is a double helix.
200
A ____ is an organism's complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions needed to develop and direct the biological activities of every organism.
What is a genome.
200
You inherit this many chromosomes from your mother.
What is 23.
200
Who is the Punnett square named after?
Who is Reginald Punnett.
300
More than 50% of our genetic code is actually taken from other organisms that have infected and spread since as long as a billion and a half years ago. These are transposable elements, also known as ____.
What is hitchhiking code.
300
_____ are the structures of DNA that carry genes.
What are chromosomes.
300
_____ is determining the exact order of the base pairs in a segment of DNA.
What is sequencing.
300
______ was the first one to study heredity and the passage of traits from one generation to the next.
Who is Gregor Mendel.
300
If a dominant and a recessive gene were present, the ___ gene would take over.
What is the dominant gene.
400
An ____ is one of two different forms of a gene.
What is an allele.
400
DNA from two different people is actually ____ the same.
What is 99.9%.
400
This new technology uses techniques of biochemistry to automatically determine the base pair order and deposit the read out in a computer.
What are DNA sequencers.
400
A ____ gene hides or overrules a recessive gene.
What is a dominant gene.
400
The Punnett square was developed in the _____.
What are the early 1900's.
500
_____ are the DNA sequences within a gene. The ____ are separated into pieces by the introns. When the DNA is transcribed into mRNA, the introns are spliced out and the _____ are spliced together to make the mRNA.
What are exons.
500
_____ is the most common method of DNA sequencing.
What is the Sanger method.
500
The original process to read the sequence of genes was to _______, and it would take a very long time to completely sequence the human genome.
The original process to map out the sequence was to do it by hand. The scientists would read the ladders of the DNA sequence and put letters next to the band that they were examining and then writing it down on paper or computers after.
500
The two types of genes are ____ and ____.
What are homozygous and heterozygous genes.
500
A butterfly, which has the heterozygous gene for blue wings mates with a butterfly that also has the heterozygous gene. ____ out of their four children will have blue wings.
What is one child.
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