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| The passing of traits from parents to offspring |
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| The scientific study of heredity |
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| Mendel became curious why ___________________________________ |
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| the plants had different characteristics, or traits. |
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| Gregor Mendel was a ______________, and lived in a _____________. |
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High School Teacher
Monastary |
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| Mendel decided to cross what kind of plants? |
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| plants with opposite forms of a trait (for example tall and short) |
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| What is a purebread plant? |
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| one that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as a parent. |
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| What were the parent plants called? |
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| What were the offspring called? |
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| When Mendel crossed F generation, what were the results? |
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| What are the factors that control traits? |
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| What are different forms of a gene? |
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| ___________ control the inheritane of traits. |
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| What is a recessive allele? |
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| an allele that is masked or covered up, when the dominant allele is present |
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| What is a dominant allele? |
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| one who's traits always show up |
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| What did Walter Sutton discover? |
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| Chromosomes are the key to understanding how offspring came to |
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| What is the Chromosome Theory of Inheritance? |
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| Genes are carried from parent cells to their offspring on chromosomes. |
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| The process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form sex cells |
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| What happens during meiosis 2? |
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| the chromosome pairs separate and are distributed to different cells. The resulting sex cells have only half as many chromosomes as the other cells in the organism. |
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| In meiosis 2, the ______________ split, and the ____________ seperate. |
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| In Meiosis 1, what happens to the chromosome pairs? |
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| they line up in the center of the cell, and are divided. |
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| *How many chromosomes do dogs have? |
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| *How many chromosomes do dogs have? |
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| How many chromosomes do humans have? |
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| How are genes joined together? |
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| like beads on a string (genes on D.N.A.) |
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| How many genes do your body cells contain? |
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| Proteins help determine the ______, _______, and many other _____. |
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| What does the order of the nitrogen bases form? |
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| What is protein synthesis? |
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| Where does protein synthesis take place? |
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| What is different between R.N.A. molecules, and D.N.A. molecules? |
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| R.N.A. looks like only one side or strand of the ladder |
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| Instead of thyminem R.N.A. contains ___________. |
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| R.N.A. contains a different sugar. What's it called? |
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ribose
(instead of DEOXYribose)
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