Question 1

What are characteristics or the way you look?

Accepted Answer

Traits

Answer

The bundle of chemicals that are considered the map for all living things.

Answer

Variations of the gene relating to the same trait.

Answer

The basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

Question 2

What is a gene?

Accepted Answer

The basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

Answer

Variations of the gene relating to the same trait.

Answer

Traits

Answer

The bundle of chemicals that are considered the map for all living things.

Question 3

What is an allele?

Accepted Answer

Variations of the gene relating to the same trait.

Answer

The bundle of chemicals that are considered the map for all living things.

Answer

The basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

Answer

Traits

Question 4

What is DNA?

Accepted Answer

The bundle of chemicals that are considered the map for all living things.

Answer

Traits

Answer

Variations of the gene relating to the same trait.

Answer

The basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

Question 5

What does DNA stand for?

Accepted Answer

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Answer

Dangerous Nature Attends

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Do Not Attend

Answer

ribonucleic acid

Question 6

Where is the DNA located in the cell?

Accepted Answer

nucleus

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Cell Wall

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Mitochondria

Answer

Cell membrane

Question 7

What is a chromatid?

Accepted Answer

Single strands of DNA

Answer

A chart the shows one's relatives over time.

Answer

The center point of each chromosome

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The packaging of the DNA molecule

Question 8

What is a chromosome?

Accepted Answer

The packaging of the DNA molecule

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The center point of each chromosome

Answer

Single strands of DNA

Answer

A chart the shows one's relatives over time.

Question 9

What is the centromere?

Accepted Answer

The center point of each chromosome

Answer

The packaging of the DNA molecule

Answer

Single strands of DNA

Answer

A chart the shows one's relatives over time.

Question 10

What is a family tree?

Accepted Answer

A chart the shows one's relatives over time.

Answer

Single strands of DNA

Answer

The packaging of the DNA molecule

Answer

The center point of each chromosome

Question 11

Who is the father of Genetics?

Accepted Answer

Gregor Mendel

Answer

Hereditary traits are determined by specific genes.  Individuals carry two genes for each trait.  When they reproduce the genes split.

Answer

Traits passed on from one generation to the next

Answer

Pea Plants

Question 12

WHat plants did Gregor Mendel work with?

Accepted Answer

Pea Plants

Answer

Gregor Mendel

Answer

Traits passed on from one generation to the next

Answer

Hereditary traits are determined by specific genes.  Individuals carry two genes for each trait.  When they reproduce the genes split.

Question 13

What are inherited traits?

Accepted Answer

Traits passed on from one generation to the next

Answer

Pea Plants

Answer

Gregor Mendel

Answer

Hereditary traits are determined by specific genes.  Individuals carry two genes for each trait.  When they reproduce the genes split.

Question 14

What are the three parts of Mendel's segregation?

Accepted Answer

Hereditary traits are determined by specific genes.  Individuals carry two genes for each trait.  When they reproduce the genes split.

Answer

Traits passed on from one generation to the next

Answer

Gregor Mendel

Answer

Pea Plants

Question 15

What are the four chemical bases of DNA code?

Accepted Answer

Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine

Answer

Adenine, Centromere, Guanine, and Thyme

Answer

Adenine, Thyme, Cytosine, Guanine

Answer

Adosine, Cytosine, Guacomole, Thyme

Question 16

What are the DNA bases attached to?

Accepted Answer

sugar and phosphate molcules

Answer

Nitrogen and Phosphate

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phosphate and Nitrogen

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Nitrogen and Oxygen

Question 17

Humans have how many pairs of Chromosomes?

Accepted Answer

23

Answer

56

Answer

78

Answer

48

Question 18

What does a human with an additional 21 chromosome have?

Accepted Answer

Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome

Answer

Epilepsy

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Chrohn's Disease

Answer

Meiosis

Question 19

What is a Genotype?

Accepted Answer

The genetic makeup, whether the alleles are dominant or recessive

Answer

The physical appearance, what the person or organism looks like

Answer

Different traits for the alleles with one dominant and one recessive

Answer

The same trait for both alleles, both dominant or both recessive

Question 20

What is a Phenotype?

Accepted Answer

The physical appearance, what the person or organism looks like

Answer

Different traits for the alleles with one dominant and one recessive

Answer

The genetic makeup, whether the alleles are dominant or recessive

Answer

The same trait for both alleles, both dominant or both recessive

Question 21

What is Homozygous?

Accepted Answer

The same trait for both alleles, both dominant or both recessive

Answer

The genetic makeup, whether the alleles are dominant or recessive

Answer

Different traits for the alleles with one dominant and one recessive

Answer

The physical appearance, what the person or organism looks like

Question 22

What is Heterozygous?

Accepted Answer

Different traits for the alleles with one dominant and one recessive

Answer

The genetic makeup, whether the alleles are dominant or recessive

Answer

The physical appearance, what the person or organism looks like

Answer

The same trait for both alleles, both dominant or both recessive

Question 23

What is reproductive cloning?

Accepted Answer

For making an animal or plant with the same DNA in the nucleus as another animal or plant

Answer

For making many copies of a gene often used in scientific research

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For making a reserve or "spare parts" of cells with the same DNA in the nucleus as a particular human or animal

Answer

International research effort to determine the sequence of the human genome and identify the genes that it contains.

Question 24

What is therapeutic cloning?

Accepted Answer

For making a reserve or "spare parts" of cells with the same DNA in the nucleus as a particular human or animal

Answer

International research effort to determine the sequence of the human genome and identify the genes that it contains.

Answer

For making many copies of a gene often used in scientific research

Answer

For making an animal or plant with the same DNA in the nucleus as another animal or plant

Question 25

What is recombinant DNA?

Accepted Answer

For making many copies of a gene often used in scientific research

Answer

For making a reserve or "spare parts" of cells with the same DNA in the nucleus as a particular human or animal

Answer

For making an animal or plant with the same DNA in the nucleus as another animal or plant

Answer

International research effort to determine the sequence of the human genome and identify the genes that it contains.

Question 26

What is the Human Genome Project?

Accepted Answer

International research effort to determine the sequence of the human genome and identify the genes that it contains.

Answer

For making many copies of a gene often used in scientific research

Answer

For making an animal or plant with the same DNA in the nucleus as another animal or plant

Answer

For making a reserve or "spare parts" of cells with the same DNA in the nucleus as a particular human or animal

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