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Vocabulary: Genetics
The Thread of Life
Pictures From Around the World
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
mix!
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sperm and egg
gametes
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What is the route Eve's ancestors took from Africa?
According to Selection 2, Eve's ancestors moved from Africa to Asia, then into Europe.
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Where is the wheel or dinner plate design used?
It's used in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway.
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What are three examples of symbols that are used on menus to denote food choices that meet specific nutrition or health guidelines?
apples, hearts, and checkmarks
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What does "key" mean in "Key Concepts for Dietary Patterns"?
Important
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When the gametes come together.
Conception / fertilization
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Mendel outlined a principle by which _________________ are transferred from one generation to another.
genes
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What do food guides in developing countries emphasize?
In developing countries, they tend to promote a diet that prevents chronic disease.
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How do food guides improve "quality of life"?
By helping people make educated decisions about food choices and be healthy.
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What is more important, all the foods in your everyday diet or nutrients and individual foods?
Your total diet / all the foods in your everyday diet
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Latin two-word name to organize organisms into groups.
binomial
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When I was 12 or 13, my father taught me the Latin binomials for common ______________________of birds.
species
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If the food pyramid graphic (or design) works so well for people in the U.S.A., why isn't the pyramid graphic used in the food guides of other countries?
Because other cultures have different symbols and norms. Other designs work better to communicate how to eat healthy.
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Why are pictures more effective in educating people and promoting nutritional well-being?
They are simple and easy to understand
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The genes, in turn, are made up of various arrangements of four different chemical building blocks called _________________________ that contain one of four different nitrogen-based molecules.
nucleotides
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Long threadlike structures in the nucleus of nearly every cell in the body.
Chromosome
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What are the 5 levels on which scientists must examine heredity?
individual the cells the chromosomes the genes the nucleotide pairs
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Name 4 designs that different countries use to illustrate food guides.
1. The wheel/dinner plate (UK, Norway, and Germany) 2. Numeral 6 (Japan) 3. Four-banded rainbow (Canada) 4. Chalice (Israel)
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What is the primary goal of ALL food guides all over the world?
to communicate an optimal (the best/ most healthy) diet for the overall health of the population.
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What does "numeric nutrient goal" mean?
The number of calories you eat or percent of vitamins you consume.
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An allele whose characteristics are not reflected when part of a heterozygous genotype. Its genetic characteristics do not appear in the phenotype.
recessive
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Choose the best answer: Scientists' conclusion is that underlying the diversity of all organisms is a number of shared genes, probably modern versions of life's oldest genes. This means: a. organisms may look different, but they are similar in that they share genes that are similar to the most modern genes. b. organisms may look different, but they are similar in that they share genes that are similar to the oldest genes.
b
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What are the food groups on the South African food guide graphic?
1. Energy Food 2. Body Building Food 3. Protective Food
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Explain the idiom : " A picture is worth a thousand words"
A picture tells you more about something than describing something with words (talking or writing). (Even if you use a lot of detail).
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Paraphrase: "Various dietary patterns can be consistent with good health."
There are many different eating habits that can be healthy. Different cultures have different eating habits and no eating habit is better than another.