Vocabulary
A feature such as eye colour or wing shape.
What is a characteristic?
A characteristic that cannot be passed on to other generations.
What is a non-heritable characteristic?
A scientific term that describes the use or modification of living things to improve our lives.
What is biotechnology?
What is a double-helix?
The process of producing an identical copy of a single animal.
What is cloning?
A variation of a characteristic, such as brown eye colour versus blue eye colour.
What is a trait?
The term that refers to traits that have a defined (either/or) form. For example, when a plant produces only white or purple flowers.
What is discrete variation?
The process of selecting and breeding individuals with desirable traits to produce offspring that also have these desired traits.
What is selective breeding?
Instructions within DNA that describe how to make any particular organism.
What is genetic code?
A possible result of altered or damaged DNA where normal cell function is disrupted.
What is cancer?
The transmission of characteristics from one generation to the next.
What is heredity?
The term that refers to traits that have a range of forms, such as height.
What is continuous variation?
A common practice on cattle farms in Canada where sperm from a chosen male can be inserted into many females.
What is artificial insemination?
The number of chromosomes that make up a complete set of human DNA.
What is 46 (23 pairs)?
One of the most common forms of cancer.
What is skin cancer?
An uninterrupted segment of DNA.
What is a gene?
Represented by a capitol letter, the offspring will exhibit this trait is one or two copies are inherited.
What is a dominant allele?
A type of fertilization where male and female gametes are combined 'in glass'.
These are produced when the DNA code in gene pairs is not exactly the same.
What are variations?
A genetic disorder that affects the ability of blood to clot.
What is hemophilia?
Each possible version of a gene.
What is an allele?
Represented by a lower-case letter, this trait will only be expressed if two copies are inherited.
What is a recessive allele?
This term refers to any technology process that directly alters the DNA of an organism.
What is genetic engineering?
What do the letters DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
A genetic condition also known as Down Syndrome.
What is trisomy 21?