UNIT 4 Chromosome Discovery and Chromosome Structure Flashcards
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This “factors” carried the traits from one generation to the next.
Mendelian factors
He recognized and explored the fibrous network within the nucleus.
Walther Flemming
Walther Flemming termed chromatin as?
“Stained material”
In what phase of cell division did Walther Flemming observed cells in various stages of division and chromosomal movement?
Mitosis
He is one of the pioneers of embryology.
Theodor Boveri
Theodor Boveri provided the first evidence of ____ cell chromosomes imparted continuity between generations.
Germ cell
He confirmed and expanded upon Boveri’s observation, and described the configurations of individual chromosomes in cells at various stages of meiosis.
Walter Sutton
He experimentally demonstrated Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance using Drosophila melanogaster – pioneered “Fly Room” experiments.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1910)
He helped establish the chromosomal basis of heredity and sex.
Calvin Bridges (1916)
Calvin Bridges showed this process using Drosophilia that caused the chromosomes to fail to separate when forming sperm and egg cells. What process is this?
Nondisjunction
This process happens during anaphase and is described to caused sperm or egg cells to contain abnormal amounts of chromosomes. In some cases, that caused the offspring produced by the sperm or eggs to display traits that they would typically not have.
Nondisjunction
Chromosome is a thread-like structure or?
Colored bodies
Chromosome is made up of what?
Protein and a single molecule of DNA
What is the function of chromosome in mitosis?
Ensure daughter cell retains its own complete genetic complement.
What is the function of chromosomes in meiosis?
- Enable each mature ovum and sperm to contain a unique single set of parental genes
- The chromosomes of a 2N (diploid) becomes haploid
This stage of cell division is most studied and is replicated condensed chromosome with chromatids.
Metaphase (chromosome)
It is a banding technique that cytogeneticists employ in order to produce a banding pattern in individual chromosome.
Giemsa banding or G-banding
Two identical strands which are the result of DNA replication and happens during the S phase of Interphase. What morphology of chromosome is this?
Chromatids
This morphology of chromosome is the central region, where the primary constriction where sister chromatids are linked.
Centromere
Centromere divides the chromosome into?
Short arm (p)
Long arm (q)
TRUE or FALSE
All chromosomes are divided particularly nicely in a p arm or q arm.
FALSE
Not all.
It is an organelle located at the centromere region that facilitates the spindle formation.
Kinetochore
It is responsible for chromosome movement at cell division.
Centromere
This occurs when a pattern of 2 or more nucleotides are repeated and the repetitions are adjacent to one another.
Tandem repeats