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21 Cards in this Set
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Sex Linked Recessive. |
Skips generations in males |
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Autosomal Recessive |
Of the people that have it, neither parents have it |
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Huntington's disease |
Occurs at old age |
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Sicle cell |
Protects heterozygous people from malaria |
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RNA Polymerase |
Makes RNA |
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Codon |
Basic unit of the genetic code, a sequence of three nucleotides in DNA or RNA |
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Genetic Code |
Universal for no matter what species |
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Introns |
Non coding DNA, a segment of DNA scribed into RNA but taken out before translation |
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Electrophoresis |
Separates molecules based on size |
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Alternative splicing |
Rearranging exons |
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Translation |
the MRNA carries the message to the cytoplasm, ribosome assembles a polypeptide using the mRNA to specify amino acids |
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Transcription |
The process of reading the DNA message. RNA polymerase synthesizes mRNA molecule |
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Activators |
Unzip the DNA molecule |
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Operon |
Cluster of genes read as a unit |
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Replication, transcrpiton, translation |
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Anti-codon |
The three nucleotide sequence in TRNA |
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Amino acids |
Substrate that produces proteins |
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Autosome |
Any of the 22 pairs of human chromosomes in males and females |
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Dihybrid |
In individual heterozygous for two genes |
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Heterozygote |
A diploid carrying Twp different alleles of a gene on its two homologous chromosomes |
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Homozygote |
A diploid individual whose two copies of a gene are the same |
