Genetic Drift
A phenomenon that occurs when a large portion of a population dies as a result of disease or natural disaster.
What is bottleneck effect?
These are factors that cause mutations.
What are mutagens?
Three ways genetic engineering is used.
What are DNA fingerprinting, GMOs, and gene therapy?
Chemicals that increase one's risk of cancer are called this.
What are carcinogens?
The range of genotypic differences between individuals from the same gene pool.
What is variation?
A change in the allele frequency of a population that results when a small portion of a population moves to a new area.
What is founder effect?
This type of mutation occurs when just one nucleotide base changes in a DNA sequence.
What is a point mutation?
The process of finding the order of nucleotides within a section of DNA.
What is sequencing?
An abnormal mass of cells caused by an uncontrollably dividing mutated cell.
What is a tumor?
A measure of the health and fitness of a population.
What is genetic load?
A new fungus is introduced to a population of trees and kills a large portion of them. This is an example of which type of genetic drift?
What is the bottleneck effect?
This type of mutation occurs in cells that do not make gametes.
What is a somatic mutation?
This is the resulting DNA once DNA from another source is added to an organism's DNA.
What is recombinant DNA?
Tumors that spread throughout the body are called this.
What is malignant?
A mistake that occurs when DNA is incorrectly replicated or transcribed.
What is a mutation?
True or False. Genetic drift has been observed to create new kinds organisms.
What is false?
This type of mutation occurs when a nucleotide base shift the whole codon, forming a very different protein than what was originally supposed to be made.
What is a frameshift mutation?
This is the name of the organism whose DNA contains fragments of FNA from a different kind of organism.
What is transgenic organism?
The three main forms of treatment for cancer.
What are poison, burning, and cutting out.
The sum of all the alleles that a population of an organism can possess.
What is a gene pool?
A population of deer was once overhunted. However, a few of the survivors of the overhunting moved to a new area and reestablished their population there. What is this an example of?
What is the founder effect?
This type of mutation is the most harmful to the organism because it effects gametes which get passed down to other generations, and it affects every cell.
What is a germ mutation?
A vector is used to deliver modified DNA into a cell during this process.
What is gene therapy?
True or False. Gene therapy is a permanent solution to certain forms of cancer.
What is false?
A chemical used to cut DNA into fragments at specific points during the process of manipulating DNA for genetic engineering.
What is a restriction enzyme?