Genes
They give protein instructions on how to connect
What are genes?
How something works
What is a function?
The process of a sperm cell and an egg cell coming together to make an offspring
What is sexual reproduction?
What we used for learning about traits and reproduction
What are Darwin's Bark Spiders?
The protein that determined if runners could run faster
What are ACTN3 proteins?
A specific form of a gene
What is a gene version?
Molecules that connect based off the instructions they got
What are protein molecules?
The outcome of sexual reproduction
What is an offspring?
The thing that scientists studied
What is spider silk?
When you have missing clotting proteins
What is Hemophilia?
A random change in the gene that isn't passed down from the parents
What is a mutation?
A category that everyone in that species has
What is a feature?
Cells from the mom
What are egg cells?
The thing spiders had if their silk was really flexible
What are less connectors?
The type of gens you had if you were a runner and only had ACTN3 proteins
What is homozygous?
2 gene versions that are the same
What is homozygous?
The type of feature
What is a trait?
Cells from the dad
What are sperm cells?
The thing spiders had if their silk was not as flexibile
What are more connectors?
A project where scientists tried to map out the Human geome
What is the Human Genome Project?
2 gene versions that are different
What is heterozygous?
Differences in traits that vary within other organisms
What is variation?
What occurs when an egg cell and a sperm cell come together.
What is fertilization?
The thing spiders had if they had an average amount of connectors
What are an average amount of spiders?
The flower that smells bad to bring insects to them.
What is the Corpse Flower?