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18 Cards in this Set
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A _______________ can be used to determine whether a person has inherited the normal number of chromosomes
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karyotype
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if a couple has 5 boys, the probability the next child will be a boy is_____
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50%
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a person who has ______ is unable to break down the amino acid phenylalanine.
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PKU
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A person who has blood type O can receive a blood transfusion only from a person who has blood type_____
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O
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a boy who has hemophilia inherited this disorder from his __________
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mother
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a female with the disorder _____________ inherits only one X chromosome and has the genotype XO.
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turners syndrome
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a person can be tested for the allele that causes huntingdons disease because the ___________________ of the allele is different from that of the normal allele.
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DNA sequence
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in dna fingerprinting, the dna probe that is used is _______________ to the dna sequence of the repeats.
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complementary.
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the process of _______________ replaces a faulty gene with a normal working gene.
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gene therapy
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the bird feeder has 3 birds is an example of a ______________ observation.
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quantitative.
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the info you gather during an experiment is called your ______--
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data
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based on his _________, redi made a prediction that keeping flies away from meat would prevent the appearance of maggots.
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hypothesis
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the name given to the idea that life could arise from non living matter is called ______________________
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spontaneous generation.
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the scientist named _______ finally settled the arguement over whether or not life could arise from nonliving matter.
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redi
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in science, a theory is a well tested explanation that unifies a broad range of ___________________
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observations.
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biologists who study cacti would be called________
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botanists.
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a mass of 3000 kg is equal to ______t.
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3
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to obtain identical copies of a single cell, scientists make a __________
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cell culture.
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