Important People
This man is the father of modern genetics, he was a monk who lived in Austria. People know him for his experiments on plant hybridization and genes.
Who is Mendel?
This gene type contains 2 identical alleles that are identified by the same letter case.
What is homozygous?
This cell division process creates 4 haploid cells, it only produces gametes.
What is meiosis?
These food were protested against for being to artificial, specific parts of the original food were targeted to become more enticing and better.
What are GMO's?
This genetic disease impairs your ability to see some colors as the main population does, it mainly affects males.
What is colorblindness?
This person worked with his partner Crick to find the shape of DNA.
Who is Watson?
These charts are used to identify what trait a offspring may get.
Mitosis produces these types of cells, they work to make the body function properly.
What is somatic?
This genetic technology is used to identify a person. Rather than using fingerprints this technology uses DNA.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
This is the most common genetic disease in the United States of America. It causes facial deformity and mental impairment along with physical limitations.
What is down syndrome?
This is important genetic scientist is currently dead but his partner is still alive. His name is very similar to the word cricket.
Who is Crick?
This word is mostly used to describe an organisms outside traits. It's opposite is the word genotype.
What is phenotype?
Meiosis only produces these family related cells, a volvox also houses these types of cells.
What are daughter cells?
This technology is also known as artificial selection. This is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics.
What is selective breeding?
This genetic disease takes away the ability of your blood to clot. There is no cure and Tsar Nicholas II's son had it.
What is hemophilia?
This revolutionary genetic scientist was born in Britain. He bears the most common American last name.
Who is Smith?
This process is used to achieve a organized profile of a person's chromosomes. This can be used to identify possible of having a genetic disease.
Meiosis has this many stages. This number is also the Japanese symbol for infinity.
what is 8?
This technology was controversial because of the ethics of research involving the development, use, and destruction of human embryos.
What is stem cell research?
This genetic disorder creates an abundance of copper in your body, it was named after a British physician named Samuel Alexander Kinnier ______.
What is Wilson's Disease?
This woman is best known for her work with X-ray diffraction on DNA. She played a massive role in discovering the shape of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
What two letters determine if a human is male.
What are XY?
A haploid has this many chromosomes. This number is 2^4+log(10^y).
What is 23?
This technology involves taking a nucleus from one organism and a egg cell from another of the same species. Then those two cells are fused together and put in another organism of the same species.
What is cloning?
This rare genetic disease occurs with the absence of the enzyme called hexosaminidase-A. It mostly occurs in children and is almost always fatal.
What is Tay-Sachs disease?