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Introduction Flashcards

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Epigenesis declines

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Preformation, fully developed mini adult inside egg

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William Harvey

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Proposed epigenesis - fertilized egg goes through series of developmental stages

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Schleiden and Schwann

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suggested cell theory

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Cell theory

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All living things composed of cells
cells come from preexisting cells
Cells are structural and functional units of life

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Darwin

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Proposes continuous evolution of species by means of natural selection, but did not know mechanism of variation and heredity

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Mendel

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heredity is passed down in discrete units
Introduces use of statistics in biology
observed dominant and recessive traits
“Father of Genetics”

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Walter Sutton

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Chromosome Theory of Inheritance: heredity and development due to generic info contained in chromosomes

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Sutton’s theory completes

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Darwin’s theory

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Genetics

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Study of heredity and variation

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Avery, MacLeod, McCarty

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Discovery of DNA as hereditary molecule

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Watson, Crick, Franklin, Chargaff

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discovered structure of DNA using x-ray crystallography

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Genes code for

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Proteins

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12
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Proteins result in expression of

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Genes

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13
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Each species has a typical number of

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Chromosomes

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14
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Polymerase Chain Reaction uses

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Restriction enzymes do copy DNA

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15
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Recombinant DNA

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Combining DNA of two organisms

16
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Human Genome Project

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Where traits are coded for on each chromosome

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Cytogenetics

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Structure and function o chromosomes

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Population genetics

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Frequency and distribution of alleles within a population

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Applied genetics

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Using and manipulating genes to produce a new trait

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Human genetics

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Genetic inheritance in humans

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Molecular genetics

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Structure and function of genes at molecular level

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Developmental genetics

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How genes control growth and development through an organism’s life cycle

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