Mutations & Genetic Engineering
What is a change in an organism's genetic material?
Mutation
If an organism's two alleles for a trait are the same, the organism is _______________ for that trait.
Purebred
What are specific sections of DNA that code for a specific protein?
Genes
Organisms that can make their own source of energy are called _______________.
Producers
The study of cells is called _________.
Cytology
Somatic mutations
If an organism's alleles for a trait are not the same, the organism is ______________ for that trait.
Hybrid
_________ occurs when one cell (the parent cell) divides to produce two new cells (daughter cells).
Cellular Respiration
What is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane?
Osmosis
What are mutations that occur in gametes that can effect the offspring of an organism?
Germ mutations
What is a grid that is divided into four boxes and uses letters to represent alleles?
A Punnett Square
True or False: Aerobic Cellular Respiration requires oxygen.
True
What is located inside the cell membrane that is a thick fluid containing many small organelles?
Cytoplasm
What involves the number of chromosomes or the number or location of genes on a chromosome?
Chromosomal Change
The way an organism looks is called its' ______________.
Phenotype
What is manufacturing proteins inside a cell?
Protein synthesis
Photosynthesis occurs where in the leaf of a plant?
The chloroplasts
Mitochondria
What is the use of genetic engineering to correct the defective genes responsible for a certain disease?
Gene Therapy
What is a variant form of a gene?
An allele! ;)
A group of three bases in a DNA sequence is a __________.
Codon
True or False: Sugar & Oxygen are the products of photosynthesis.
True.
What are the tiny organelles that direct the assembling of protiens?
Ribosomes