Chromosomes and Inheritance
A structure within a cell that contains DNA and carries genetic information
What is a Chromosome?
This is the process of putting proteins together
What is protein synthesis?
The father of modern genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This man sailed on a 5 year journey on the HMS Beagle and authored "On The Origin of Species" (The theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Any differences between individuals in the same species
What are variations?
What is 23 pairs or 46 total?
These are large sections of DNA containing hundreds or thousands of DNA bases.
What are genes?
How a dominant trait is represented in a punnet square or genotype
What is a capital letter?
Though he was a lawyer by trade, with rocks and fossils he spent most of is days. (the Earth is 300 million years old btw).
Who is Charles Lyell?
A genetic mutation where bases are removed
What is deletion?
This is the name of a normal body cell
What is a somatic cell?
The full name of DNA
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The word that means passed down from one generation to another
What is inherited?
What are species?
The type of mutation that cancer most likely is
What is an acquired mutation?
This is the type of cell division that results in only 2 daughter cells
What is mitosis?
This acid is known as DNA's half-brother
What is RNA?
How a trait is documented using letters only
What it genotype?
The main bird that Darwin focused his time studying
What are finches?
A paleontologist (fossil scientist) who came from a poor family, selling fossils to make money.
Who is Mary Anning?
This is the place where chromosomes are located in a cell.
What is the nucleus?
This type of RNA brings amino acids to the protein synthesis party
What is tRNA?
In guinea pigs, black fur (B) is dominant over white fur (b). If two heterozygous black guinea pigs (Bb) are bred, what are the possible phenotypes of their offspring?
What are black or white fur?
For an idea to become a theory you need at least these 2 things.
What are observations and experimental results?
Lamarck was wrong, but he got this right
What is that evolution happens in slow gradual steps, or simple organisms can develop into more complex organisms over several generations?