Punett and pedigree

Question 0

Define a karyotype

Answer 0

The number and visual appearance of the chromosomes in the nuclei

Question 1

Define a gene

Answer 1

A segment of DNA

Question 2

Down syndrome

Answer 2

Chromosome defect, extra copy of chromosome 21

Question 3

Turner syndrome

Answer 3

Female is either partly or completely missing in X-chromosome

Question 4

Klinefelter syndrome

Answer 4

Syndrome in which males have an extra X-chromosome

Question 5

Mulligans chromosome

Answer 5

A pair of chromosomes that contain the same gene sequence

Question 6

AutoZomes

Answer 6

Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome

Question 7

What is a haploid

Answer 7

Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

Question 8

What is a diploid

Answer 8

Two complete sets of chromosomes

Question 9

Fertilization

Answer 9

Fusion of male and female gametes

Question 10

Zygote

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Fertilized gamete

Question 11

Gamete

Answer 11

Egg or sperm

Question 12

Meiosis

Answer 12

Cell division that results in four daughter cells

Question 13

Crossing over

Answer 13

Exchange of genes between Homologous chromosomes

Question 14

Nondisjunction

Answer 14

Failure of chromosomes to separate normally

Question 15

Alleles

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One of the two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation

Question 16

Homozygous

Answer 16

Two identical jeans at the corresponding Loki of homologous chromosomes

Question 17

Heterozygous

Answer 17

Two or more different versions of alleles at least one of its jeans

Question 18

Dominant traits

Answer 18

Treat that results from the expression of the dominant allele

Question 19

Recessive trait

Answer 19

Trait that result from the expression up to recessive allele’s

Question 20

Genotype

Answer 20

Genetic makeup of an individual organism

Question 21

Phenotype

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Characteristics of an individual

Question 22

Codominance

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Two alleles equally expressed

Example: check her chickens

Question 23

Incomplete dominance

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Mixing a blending of two phenotypes

Sample: read flour and white flower let you to make pink flower

Question 24

Multiple alleles

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When more than two allele forms are present in the population Example: blood type

Question 25

Pleoitrophy

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When one allele has multiple effects | Example sickle cell and Coloration slashed cross side of Siamese cats

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Epistasis

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A gene at one locus affects/alters the phenotype expression of a gene add a second locus Example: golden golden retrievers

Question 27

Polygenetic inheritance

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Quantitive characteristics; edict of effect of 20 or more genes on a single phenotype Sample: height and skin color

Question 28

Sex linked traits

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Genes attached to the chromosome | Example hemophilia and color blindness

Question 29

What is a carrier

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Individual that has one copy of a recessive allele and does not exhibit the trait

Question 30

Law of segregation

Answer 30

During the production of gametes the two copies of each hereditary factor segregates so that offspring acquire one factor from each parent