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Genetics Pre- 1900
Vocabulary
Reproduction
DNA
Human Genome Project
100
Mendel used this plant to test and observe heritable traits over generations.
What is the garden pea?
100
The first few divisions of a cells early stage.
What is cleavage.
100
The method of reproduction by which an organism can reproduce without a partner.
What is asexual reproduction.
100
DNA makes up this complex structure in the cell nucleus.
What is a chromosome.
100
The number of nucleotides in the human genome.
What is 3.1 billion?
200
Charles Darwin devised his theory of evolution while on the voyage of this ship.
What is The Beagle?
200
This is the shape that DNA takes.
What is a double helix.l
200
The form of asexual reproduction in which the female lays eggs which require no fertilization from the male.
What is parthenogenesis.
200
The pair of identical chromosomes after DNA replication.
What is a chromatid.
200
The HGP has discovered that ______ of our genome is made of non-coding sequences.
What is half.
300
Mendel's work went ignored because of this. It is made of DNA.
What is the chromosome?
300
The removal of living tissue from an organism is called this.
What is a biopsy.
300
Sperm and egg cells are of this type of cell.
What is germ cells.
300
Place where sister chromatids are joined and where spindle fibers attach during cell division.
What is the centromere.
300
This chromosome has the smallest number of genes.
What is the Y chromosomes.
400
The three principles that heritable traits are transmitted by. Including the idea that parents pass units of inheritance to the offspring.
What is the theory of genetics.
400
The laboratory procedure that separates substances in a mixture based on their properties
What is chromatography.
400
Immature germ cells from both genders are called these. (Two Types)
What is spermatagonia and oogonia.
400
DNA is synthesized into this molecule that excludes thymine and replaces it with uracil.
What is RNA.
400
This chromosome has the most genes.
What is chromosome number 1.
500
The nucleus of the cell was discovered using this method.
What is nuclear staining.
500
Method of distinguishing molecules from one another using electricity.
What is electrophoresis?
500
Cancer is the result of this codon not being formed properly.
What is the stop codon?
500
It is the phase of the cell cycle in which DNA is replicated.
What is the S phase.
500
This man developed the method for sequencing DNA.
Who is Frederick Sanger?