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Year 10 biology Flashcards

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What is the building blocks of DNA?

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DNA is made up of millions of monomers called nucleotide.

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What does nucleotide consists of?

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phosphate group, pentose sugar and nitrogenous base.

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What structure is DNA in?

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DNA is arranged in a double helix.

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What components make up the backbone

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The phosphate and the sugar form the backbone.

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What component makes up the DNA ladder called “rungs”?

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The base form the “rungs”

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How many nitrogenous bases are there?

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There are four types of nitrogenous bases.

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What are the four nitrogenous bases called?

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Adenine,Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine

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What is complementary base pairing?

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Complementary base pairing means each base will only bond with one other specific base.

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What is a gene?

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Genes are sections of a chromosome that code for a specific protein.

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What is the significance of a protein?

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The proteins give us traits.

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Where is DNA found?

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DNA is found in a nucleus.

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How is the info organised?

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The information is organised into units called genes, which are found on chromosomes.

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How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have and their total?

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Human body cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes and 46 in total.

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What does diploid mean?

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Diploid is a pair set of chromosome in somatic cells.

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What is a somatic cell?

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Somatic cells are cells in the body cells except sex cells. eg: skin and cheek cells.

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What are gametes?

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Gametes are the reproduction of sex cells (sperm/egg)

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What does haploid mean?

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Haploid is the possession of one copy of each chromosome per cell.

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What is an autosome?

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Any chromosome not involved in sex determination.

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What is sex chromosome?

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The chromosomes that determines an individual’s sex.

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What is a karyotypes?

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A karyotype is a visualisation of an individuals collection of chromosomes.

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What is Karyotypes used for?

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The karyotype is used to look for abnormal numbers or structures of chromosomes.

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What does homologous mean?

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Chromosomes that are digitally arranged so that they are matched with their homologue or “partner” chromosome.

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23
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What is down syndrome?

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Down syndrome is trisomy 21 meaning they have the copies of chromosomes.

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What is turner’s syndrome?

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Turner syndrome only has 1 copy of the x (monosomy x)

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What are dominant alleles?

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Alleles that will always be expressed when their present.

25
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What is an alleles?

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The different versions/forms of a gene are called alleles.

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What is the klinefelter’s syndrome?

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When an individual has an extra x chromosome (xxx male)

27
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What are recessive alleles?

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Alleles that are expressed only when there are two recessive alleles.

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What is a genotypes?

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The alleles that a person has. ex: Bb

29
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What is a phenotype?

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The trait that is seen. ex: brown eyes

30
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What does homozygous mean?

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The same (BB or bb)

31
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What does hetrozygous mean?

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Different (Bb)

32
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What is a pedigree?

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A pedigree is a chart of the genetics history of family over several generations.

33
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What do the symbols mean

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Female - circle Male - square

34
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How do you denote the generations?

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By roman numerals : IV, II

35
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How do you determine if the pedigree chart shows an autosomal?

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If the ratio between men and women is 50/50, then the disorder is autosomol.

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How do you determine if the pedigree chart shows an x-linked?

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If most of the males in the pedigree are affected, the disorder is x-linked.

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How do you determine whether the disorder is dominant?

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If the disorder is dominant, one of the parents must have the disorder.

38
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How do you determine whether the disorder is recessive?

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If the disorder is recessive, neither parents has to have disorder because they can be heterozygous.

39
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What are proteins?

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They are large very complex molecules necessary for EVERY living organism (animals, plants, fungi and bacteria.

40
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What does genetic traits rely on?

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Genetic traits rely on proteins.

41
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What are the building blocks of protein?

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Amino acids

42
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How are proteins unique?

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Each protein has a specific function and a specific shape to enable it to perform that function.

43
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How does DNA code for amino acid?

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Each 3 bases of amino acids codes for a specific amino acid.

44
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What does DNA stand for?

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

45
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When are proteins created?

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proteins are created in Ribosomes.

46
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Why do we need to convert DNA?

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DNA is too large to leave the nucleus.

47
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What is DNA converted to?

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messenger RNA

48
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What does RNA stand for?

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Ribonucleic acid

49
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Whats the process called to get DNA to RNA

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Transcription

50
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What is the role of RNA

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RNA, primarily responsible for protein synthesis, carries genetic information and is translated by ribosomes into essential proteins, with three main types being mRNA, rRNA, and tRNA.

51
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What is a genetic cross?

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The mechanism to measure the probability of all the outcomes for a specific genetic cross.

52
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What is a punnett square?

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A square diagram used by biologists to predict the genotypes of a specific cross or breeding experiment.

53
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What is translation?

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The process by which MRna is ‘read’ to produce a strand of a protein chain.

54
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What does TRNA stand for?

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Transfer RNA

55
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What is the role of transfer RNA?

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To carry specific, individual amino acid.

56
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Where does translation happen?

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In the ribosome

57
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What is a codon?

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3 base pairs of a messenger RNA (triplet)

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