Heredity
Blood and Pedigree
Experiments
Define...
Disorders
100
Locus
What is the location of a chromosome on a gene.
100
Universal Donor
What is Type O blood.
100
Used pea plants in his observations and experiments.
Who is Gregor Mendel.
100
Aneuploidy
What is one more or one less of a chromosome.
100
Results from trisomy 21.
What is Down Syndrome.
200
One allele pair is not completely dominant over its partner. The phenotype is in between!
What is codominance.
200
In pedigrees, circles represent ______ and squares represent _____.
What is females and males.
200
A race to immortal glory for mapping billions of human base pairs.
What is the Human Genome Project.
200
Nondisjunction
What is failure of one or more pairs of chromosomes to separate during mitosis or meiosis.
200
Different ways a genetic or chromosomal disorder can result from.
What is deletion, inversion, translocation, and duplication.
300
Mendel's Principle of Inheritance
What is segregation and assortment.
300
Name of the animal from which the "Rh" factor came from.
What is the rhesus monkey.
300
Used Drosophila melanogaster to prove that genes had a specific region on a chromosome.
Who is Thomas H. Morgan.
300
Independent Assortment
What is random distribution of alleles on different loci into a gamete, results in new gene combinations.
300
Symptoms include frequent infections, anemia, stunted growth, strokes, and jaundice. Blood cells are in a rigid state.
What is sickle cell anemia.
400
A cross between homozygous parents.
What is a monohybrid cross.
400
Markers present on red blood cells that help identify blood type.
What are antigens.
400
Mendel used this to explain how two pairs of genes were assorted in gametes.
What is a dihybrid cross.
400
Multiple Allele System
What is the presence of three or more alleles of a gene among individuals of a population.
400
Results from the deletion of chromosome 5.
What is cat-cry disorder, or cri-du-chat.
500
Epistasis.
What is the locus of a gene affects the phenotypic effect expression at a second locus.
500
The person through whom the pedigree was discovered. Hint: think proposition...
What is the propositus.
500
The probability that a _______ will disrupt gene linkage is proportional to the ________ that separate the two loci.
What is crossover and distance.
500
Colchicine
What is an organic compound used to block formation of microtubules to suspend chromosomes in metaphase.
500
Location of the albino trait in the human karyotype.
What is chromosome 11.
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