Chapter 11-12 Flashcards
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A person who can pass a trait on to spring but doesn’t show it is a…
Carrier
A diagram that shows family history.
A pedigree
Shows the location of a gene on a chromosome.
Chromosome map
A picture of the chromosomes of an individual.
karyotype
Males are_ _
XY
Females are_ _
XX
A loss of a piece of chromosome.
Deletion
When a piece of chromosome breaks off and flips.
Inversion
When a piece of chromosome breaks off and reattaches on a new chromosome
Translocation
The failure of a pair of chromosomes to separate.
Nondisjunction
Cancers of muscle and bone.
Sarcoma
Cancer of the white blood cells.
Leukemia
Cancer of the tissues that cover and line the body and organs.
Carcinoma
Adding a base to a DNA sequence.
Addition or Insertion
Removing a base from a DNA sequence.
Deletion
Changing a base in a DNA sequence.
Substitution
Controlled by male and female hormones.
Sex-influenced Traits
Are caused by a single gene.
Single-allele Traits
Have multiple forms of the same allele.
Multiple alleles
Controlled by multiple sets of genes.
Polygenic Traits
Those that are tied to a sex chromosome.
Sex-Linked/X-linked Traits
A mass of abnormal cells.
Tumor
When a cell changes to fit what the body needs.q
Cell Differentiation
Those diseases what we inherit.
Genetic Disorder