Mendelian Genetics
A type of allele that overrides the effect of other alleles
What is "dominant"?
This is the number of cells created by mitosis
What is "2"?
This is the most succesful treatment we have for cancer
What is "chemotherapy"?
This is a 2X2 chart used to calculate offspring ratios
What is "a Punnett Square"?
The study of life in all forms
The term for a version of a gene with one copy inherited from either parent
What is "an allele"?
This is the term for cell division involved in reproduction
What is "meiosis"?
The term used to describe something that increases cancer risk
What is a "carcinogen"?
The term for someone with two different alleles
What is "heterozygous"?
This is where DNA is stored in the cell
What is "the nucleus"?
The term for a dominant and recessive trait mixing to from a new trait
What is "incomplete dominance"?
This process causes all siblings to look slightly different despite having the same parents
What is "crossing over"?
A mistake in DNA copying that may change the sequence
What is "a mutation"?
Mendel's law that defines each parent as having 2 alleles with only 1 passed to offspring
What is "the law of segregation"?
This is the highest level of taxonomic classification
What is "a domain"?
What are "X and Y chromosomes"?
These structures split during mitosis
What are "sister chromatids"?
This is the phase where the cell proofreads itself
Mendel's law that each inherited allele in passed on randomly, regardless of other alleles
The place where energy is made in the cell
What is the "mitochondira"?
The term for the genetic code and the traits it creates
What is "a genotype and a phenotype"?
These are the four phases of the cell cycle
What is "G1, S, G2, and M?"
This is a type of physical carcinogen that breaks DNA
What is "radiation"?
The ratio of dominant phenotype to recessive when 2 heterozygotes mate
What is "3:1"?
The kingdom that contains unusual Eukaryotes that do not fit in any other kingdom
What is "kingdom Protista"?