The number of chromosomes in a normal human body cell.
What is 46?
100
An individual inherits this many allele from EACH parent.
What is 1? (Remember that an individual has 2 alleles for a trait; one came from mom while the other one came from dad)
100
By inserting DNA from one organism into another, humans have been able to improve the food supply and make crops more resistant to insect damage. This is an example of this type of genetic engineering.
What is RECOMBINANT DNA?
100
This term refers to the total number of genes in an organism.
What is genome?
100
Originally organisms were first classified into these two groups.
What are plants and animals?
200
When one egg and one sperm join together to from a diploid zygote this is occurring.
What is fertilization?
200
Aa shows this type of genotype.
What is heterozygous?
200
When DNA combines in an organism A will pair with T while G will pair with this letter.
What is C?
200
In comparison to the original organism the clone is this.
What is genetically identical?
200
The largest grouping of related organisms is known as this.
What is kingdom?
300
This type of picture can tell if a person has a genetic disease or not by showing too many or too few chromosomes.
What is a karyotype?
300
A genotype with two identical alleles for a trait, such as PP
What is homozygous?
300
The first step in creating recombinant DNA is to do this.
What is to cut The DNA of an animal cell with enzymes to remove a certain gene?
300
This type of treatment means placing normal genes into human cells to correct genetic disorders.
What is gene therapy?
300
This man is credited with developing the modern classification system.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
400
A male genotype is representing using these 2 letters.
What is XY?
400
In pea plants, the allele for round seeds (R) is dominant over the allele for wrinkled seeds (r). A homozygous round pea plant would have this genotype.
What is RR?
400
This process is used to separate DNA fragments into a banded pattern that can be used to identify crime scene suspects.
What is gel electrophoresis?
400
This was the name of the first cloned sheep.
What is Dolly?
400
Of the following, this organism would be most closely related to Archips rosana.
Rosana pinuta
Archips fervidana
Pinuta archips
What is Archips fervidana?
500
If a person has 3 chromosome #21, then he or she will have this genetic disease.
What is down syndrome?
500
A person has blue eyes. Blue eyes is an example of this.
What is phenotype?
500
A DNA fingerprint can be made using a person's ____
What is blood?
500
A benefit of the human genome project is to be able to do this.
What is identify and diagnose genetic disorders?
500
The scientific name of a red maple tree is Acer rubrum. The species name is this.