DNA
DNA is formed in this part of the cell
What is the Nucleus?
This is the name for a specific characteristic of an organism that is determined by its genes
What is a trait?
What is nature?
This disorder can cause severe lethargy, pain, organ damage and even jaundice due to the crescent shape of the red blood cells caused by mutations of the beta-globin gene.
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
This is the full name of DNA
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
This is the twisted ladder shape that DNA forms
What is a double helix?
What is lower case?
The impact of intelligence based on access to quality education and instruction is an example of __________
What is nurture?
This genetic disorder leads to an impairment of a body's ability to clear mucus from its organs, namely the lungs, which can lead to increased risk for bacterial infection.
What is cystic fibrosis?
Reginald _______ blank is responsible for this box-like organization style to study genetic inheritance?
What are Punnett Squares? / Who is Punnett?
This is the name of the process by which DNA makes more of itself
What is replication?
This is the dude that is considered the founder of the genetic study of dominant and recessive traits due to his study of pea plants
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The expression of a genetic trait physically is known as this.
What is a phenotype?
This disorder is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in DNA.
What is Down's Syndrome?
This project ran from 1990 to 2003 and was an international scientific research project that mapped and sequenced of human DNA.
What is the Human Genome Project?
This is the complete set of genetic information in an organism
What is genome?
This is the word to describe two of the same alleles present in a gene
What is homozygous?
The study of how environmental factors affect genes without changing dna is known as this.
What is epigenetics?
Prior to the advent of prenatal DNA testing, this test was conducted by taking a sample of the amniotic fluid during pregnancy. It is still in use today.
What is amniocentesis?
Synonymous with heterozygous, this word is also used to describe cars that run on electric and gas powered engines.
What is hybrid?
This is the paired nitrogenous base to guanine in DNA
What is cytosine?
This is the term for the presence of two different dominant alleles present in a gene
What is codominence?
a measurement of how much of a trait can vary due to genetic factors.
What is heritability?
These are sequences of DNA nucleotides that read the same forward and backward on opposite strands.
What are palindormic repeats?
In 1952, this scientific pioneer first hypothesized the double-helix shape after using x-rays to view the structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklind?