Flashcards in Chapter 15 Deck (19):
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What were Mendels hereditary factors?
Genes
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Where were Mendels hereditary factors located?
Chromosomes
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What happens to homologous chromosomes during meiosis? How does this relate to the law of segregation?
The chromosomes separate and segregate this exactly what the law of segregation
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Name three reasons to use fruit flies as a model organism for studying genetics
Prolific and fast breeders
Only four pairs of chromosomes
Different varieties
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What does wild type mean?
The phenotype for a character most commonly observed in natural populations
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What is the opposite of wild type?
Mutant
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Morgan's p generation
True bred parents
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Morgan's f1
Everyone is wild
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Morgan's f2
3:1 red to white
No white females
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Why did Morgan get the particular result he got in his f2 generation?
The eye color gene is sex linked it is only present on the X chromosome not the y
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Long
Female
Only eggs
X chromosome
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Very short
Male
Sperm and eggs 50/50
Y chromosome
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Female chromosomes
x and x
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Male chromosomes
X and y
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Did Mendel know what his "hereditary factors" actually were?
No
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Do all animals use this same system of sex chromosomes?
No
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On which chromosomes are nearly all human sex linked genes found
X
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Three sex linked disorders found in humans
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Hemophilia
Color blindness
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