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Vocabulary
Mitosis
Gamete Formation
Teratogens
Alphabet Soup
100
A size-order chromosome chart.
What is a karyotype?
100
The not dividing stage of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
100
The formation of sperm cells.
What is spermatogenesis?
100
Prevents fetal hemoglobin molecules from binding oxygen and causes low birth weight.
What is cigarette smoking?
100
DNA
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
200
A specialized structure in a eukaryotic cell that carries out a specific function.
What is an organelle?
200
When DNA coils tightly, shortening and thickening the chromosomes.
What is prophase?
200
A product of female meiosis that contains little cytoplasm and does not continue to develop into an oocyte.
What is a polar body?
200
Can induce a stroke in a fetus.
What is cocaine?
200
mRNA
What is messenger ribonucleic acid?
300
The expression of a gene in traits or symptoms.
What is phenotype?
300
The phase when the nuclear envelope re-forms.
What is telophase?
300
A membrane-covered area on the head of sperm that contains enzymes.
What is the acrosome?
300
Can produce children with small heads and flat faces.
What is alcohol?
300
hES
What are human embryonic stem cells?
400
An organelle consisting of RNA and protein that is a scaffold for protein synthesis.
What is a ribosome?
400
When organelles and and macromolecules are distributed between two new daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
400
The ratio of oocytes to polar bodies after one complete cycle of meiosis.
What is 3:1?
400
HIV, chickenpox, and German measles.
What are viral infections?
400
SCNT
What is single nucleotide nuclear transfer?
500
A type of protein around which DNA entwines.
What is a histone?
500
Centromeres part and chromatids separate during this phase.
What is anaphase?
500
The result of a fertilized polar body.
What is a blighted ovum?
500
The prenatal time when genetic abnormalites, toxic substances, or viruses can alter a specific structure.
What is the critical period?
500
SNPs
What are single nucleotide polymorphisms?