Genetic Variability
How often an allele shows up in a gene pool
The event in which a large part of a population dies, and is left with survivors that change the allele frequency
What is the Bottleneck Effect?
When just one nucleotide base changes in the DNA chain.
What is a Point Mutation?
A cancer causing agent.
What is a Carcinogen?
Tips of the chromosome.
What is a Telomere?
Small, circular DNA molecules that function like chromosomes without the process of reproduction.
What are Plasmids?
Event in which a small surviving population moves to a new area and carries on specific allele frequencies
What is the Founder Effect?
What is a Tumor?
The process of determining the order of nucleotides within a a DNA strand.
What is Sequencing?
What is Genetic Equilibrium?
A change in allele frequency that is based off of random events
What is Genetic Drift?
Mutation within a gamete, can be passed down genetically.
What is a Germ Mutation?
Unrestrained growth of abnormal cells within the body.
What is Cancer?
A physical or chemical substance that changes the structure of an organism.
What is a Mutagen?
The sum of all the alleles that a population could possess.
What is a Gene Pool?
A physical or chemical substance that changes genetic structure of an organism
What is a Mutagen?
Mutation within the autonomic cells, is not passed down genetically.
What is a Somatic Mutation?
Organism that contains genes that have been introduced from other kinds of organisms.
What is a Transgenic Organism?
An organism that has undergone genetic engineering.
What is a GMO?
The ebb and flow of genetic material throughout a population
What is Gene Flow?
The process of deliberately manipulating genes within an organism in ways other than natural processes.
What is Genetic Editing?
Condition that results from a cell having three or more complete sets of chromosomes.
What is Polyploidy?
The process of using chemicals to poising and disrupt cell processes in abnormal cells so that they can't divide.
What is Chemotherapy?
A type of DNA that comes from mixing smaller pieces of DNA together with the orignal DNA from an organism.
What is Recombinant DNA?