Skinny Genes
Leggo My Eggo!
What's Your Type?
It's Just A Phase
What's In A Name?
100
Genes are located on this cell structure.
What is a Chromosome?
100
This process takes place in the ovule of a flowering plant.
What is Fertilization?
100
A person who has a karyotype that displays an extra chromosome on chromosome 21 is said to have this disease.
What is Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome?
100
This phase of mitosis is characterized by the disappearance of the nuclear envelope.
What is Prophase?
100
This woman was the first to produce a picture of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
This term is used to describe a change in the structure of a gene or a chromosome.
What is a mutation?
200
This type of egg has the same number of chromosomes as other cells in an organism.
What is a Fertilized egg?
200
This is used to determine whether a person has a chromosomal disease.
What is a Karyotype?
200
This phase of mitosis is characterized by the separation of chromosomes to opposite sides of the cell plate.
What is Anaphase?
200
As partners in crime, these men won a Noble Prize in 1962 for their discoveries about the structure of DNA.
Who are Watson and Crick?
300
This terms describes an individual who has two different forms of a gene.
What is a Hybrid?
300
This term is used to describe a trait that is passed from a parent to an offspring.
What is an Inherited trait?
300
A male who has a karyotype that displays an extra X chromosome is said to have this disease.
What is Kleinfelter's disease?
300
This phase of mitosis is characterized by the movement of chromosomes to the middle of the cell.
What is Metaphase?
300
This man was an Austrian Monk who observed how traits were inherited by experimenting with pea plants?
Who is Gregor Mendel?
400
The effect of this type of gene can be hidden.
What is a Recessive gene?
400
Farmers use this technique to produce plants and animals with certain traits.
What is Selective breeding?
400
This is a term used to describe a chromosome that failed to separate during Anaphase.
What is Non-disjunction?
400
This phase of mitosis is characterized by the formation a new cell.
What is Telophase?
400
This American scientist experimented with fruit flies to learn about chromosomes.
Who is Thomas Hunt Morgan?
500
This is the part of a chromosome that carries information about a trait.
What is Gene?
500
This occurs when pollen is moved from a stamen to the top of the pistil.
What is Pollination?
500
A female who has a karyotype that shows a missing X chromosome is said to have this disease.
What is Turner's disease?
500
This is a process that every cell goes through in order to produce new cells.
What is Mitosis