biology- inheritance,variation,evolution-paper 2

Question 1

What is a gamete?

Answer 1

gametes are sex cells with half the number of chromosomes these cells are formed from mwiosis sperm and egg cells in animals pollen and egg cells in plants

Question 2

What is a diploid cell?

Answer 2

This is a cell that contains 2 full sets of chromosomes.

Question 3

What is a haploid cell

Answer 3

This is a cell that contains one full set of chromosomes.

Question 4

What is meant by the term phenotype?

Answer 4

These are the visible characteristics of an organism as a result of its genes

Question 5

What is meant by genetic engineering?

Answer 5

This is a process by which humans modify the genome of an organism by introducing a gene from another organism to get a desired result.

Question 6

What is meant by Genotype?

Answer 6

these are the alleles that an organism has for a particular characteristic usually written as letters

Question 7

What is DNA

Answer 7

It is a polymer made up of 2 strands to form a double helix structure.