Week 1: Historical Background and Definition Flashcards
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What did HERMANN MULLER observe on his 3rd experiment on gene mutations?
physical mutations or physical changes
The alleles or variants an individual carries in a particular gene or genetic location.
Genotype
The individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color, and blood type.
Phenotype
An allele whose characteristic it is connected to will be expressed in an individual.
Dominant
Scientific name of a Fruit fly, used by Muller
Drosophila melanogaster
An allele whose characteristics it is connected to will be masked in an individual.
Recessive
This possesses an identical allele.
Homozygous
Muller’s basis on determining lethal mutations
characteristics that are not present
on the offspring
This possesses a different allele.
Heterozygous
This is a condition when one chromosome has a copy of the gene, and the other chromosome has that gene deleted or absent.
Hemizygous
What did HERMANN MULLER observe on the 1st and 2nd parts of his experiment on gene mutations?
Lethal Mutations or Lethal Allele Combinations
This is a single copy of autosomal gene is enough to express the trait.
Autosomal Dominant
These two copies of the autosomal gene is required to express the trait.
Autosomal - Recessive
What was Muller’s hypothesis during his experiments?
genetic mutations could be induced using x-rays
This is where each of the two alleles of an autosomal gene contributes to the phenotype.
Autosomal - Codominant
This is seen in sex chromosomes; Only need one copy of the gene for it to be expressed.
X - linked Dominant
Discovered that Toad eggs fertilized with sperm that was exposed to x-ray resulted in embryos with developmental abnormalities
Charles Bardeen in 1907
Muller’s three experiments were conducted on the range of these respective years
1926-1927
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
In 1826 Muller bred flies whose genomes contained particular genetic markers on X-Chromosome, which enabled him to identify mutations.
FALSE, 1926
Muller’s work led him to define genetic mutation as?
A local alteration of a chromosome: a particular
allele was transformed into another one, the
“mutant gene”.
TRUE OR FALSE
In Muller’s experiment, no one’s being born with
Drosophila.
TRUE
In Muller’s 3rd experiment a fly with three X chromosomes is called a?
Super female
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
The ABO Blood Group System has two alleles that affect the expression of antigens on the surface of red blood cells.
FALSE; Three ( A, B, O)
This gene can still be expressed even if there is just one copy.
X - linked Recessive