Vocab Terms
When a mistake occurs in an organisms genes, these can occur.
Mutations
The sections of your DNA that determine your traits.
Genes
Humans evolving to be able to digust lactose from cow's milk is and example of what kind of mutation?
Possitive
Traits are passed down to organisms from where?
Parents or Parent genes
The tightly coiled packages of DNA that contain an organism's genes. Normal humans have 46 of them.
Chromosomes
This single-strand molecule comes in many forms. It helps copy genetic information in your cells and is used in protein creation.
RNA
Albinism is a genetic disorder that causes pigment (color) to not develop in the tissue of organisms. This is an example of what kind of mutation?
Negative
The term for different versions of the same gene (trait).
Allele
This is for the process your DNA goes through to make copies of itself
Replication
This cell organelle uses information from your DNA to synthesize proteins.
Ribosomoes
Human beings evolving the mutation of blue eyes from mutated genes for brown eyes is an example of what kind of mutation?
Neutral
When an organism inherits the same version of a gene from both parents, they are considered to have a ___________ pair for that gene
Homozygous
This is the process your DNA goes through to give your cells the information they need to make proteins.
Transciption
The nitrogen-based molecules that make up your DNA.
Nucleotides
A mutation caused by an extra nucleotide pair being added to a sequence of DNA is known as a ______________ mutation.
Insertion Mutation
A version of a gene that suppresses the expression of a similar gene is said to be what?
Dominant
After your mRNA with the info to make proteins is sent to your cell's ribosomes, what is the name of the process of actually synthesizing proteins?
Translation
The nucleotide that is typically paired with Cytosine (C) in normal DNA.
Guanine (G)
High levels of radiation, exposure to too much UV light, or hazardous chemicals are examples of __________ _______ , which can cause mutations.
Environmental factors
Two parents with brown eyes have a child with blue eyes. Since blue eyes in a recessive trait, the parents had what type of allele pairs for eye color?
Heterozygous