Genes & Mutations
The most important part of DNA.
What are genes?
What you get from your parents.
What are inherited traits?
The thing that makes up every part of someone's body.
What are proteins?
The number of chromosomes in a human.
What are 46 chromosomes?
When two gene copies for a feature are the same.
What is homozygous?
What you get throughout your life.
What are acquired traits?
What are amino acids?
These tightly coiled structures in the nucleus hold our DNA, like spools of thread holding a long string.
What are chromosomes?
When two genes for a feature are different.
What is heterozygous?
a specific, distinct characteristic of an organism determined by genes for a feature like eye color or blood type.
What are traits?
The thing that genes code for.
What are proteins?
Chromosomes are made of DNA, and a small section of DNA that carries a specific trait (like eye color) is called this.
What is a gene?
A permanent change in the DNA sequence inside a cell.
What is a mutation?
A distinctive physical, genetic, or functional trait of a species of organisms (animals, humans, plants, etc).
What are features?
How different proteins affect the traits of features.
What is the way protein molecules connect and their structure? (any order)
In the nucleus, the cell's control center, organized into chromosomes.
Where are chromosomes, which contain DNA, found in a cell?
They can be helpful, harmful, or have no effect (neutral).
What are the three main ways mutations can affect an organism?
This famous scientist is known as the "father of genetics" for his studies on pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The protein that scientists believe can make someone run faster.
What is ACTN3?
The number of genes in a human chromosome.
What are hundreds to thousands of genes?