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What might cause DNA mutations?
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Born with/inherited
Develops in lifetime Chemicals Radiation Smoking |
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What are type of tumor cells?
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Benign - tumor that does not have quality of cancer
Malignant - tumor of cancerous cells |
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What are some characteristics of malignant tumors?
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Invade other tissue
Grow rapidly No contact inhibition Metastasized Spread to other part of the body |
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cyclin
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One of a family of closely related proteins that regulate the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells
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cancer
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disorder in which some of the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth
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What do cyclins do?
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They regulate the timing of the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells.
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What are the problems with cancer cells?
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They don't respond to the signals that regulate the growth of most cells.
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who was the founding father of genetics?
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Gregory Mendel
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What did he experiment with?
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Pea plants
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Why did he use pea plants?
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grew quickly
produce seeds in a couple of months easy to manage |
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What was he able to do with pea plants?
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he could self fertalize them or cross fertalize them
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What is a pure bread tall plant?
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it only has factors for tallness
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What is a pure bred short plant?
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it only had factors for shortness
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What is genetics?
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it is the study of heredity
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Alleles
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All of the forms of a gene for any given trait
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Genotype
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The genetic make-up, or combination, of an organism
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Phenotype
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The physical result of a gene combination
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Heterozygous
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Alleles paired together that are different from each other
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Dominant
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When one allele masks the presence of another
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Recessive
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An allele that is masked by another
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Homozygous
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Alleles paired together for a specific trait are identical
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Punnett Square
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Grid system used to determine possible genotypes of offspring
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Genetics
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The study of heredity
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Traits
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Characteristics that can be passed only from one living thing to its young.
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