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87 Cards in this Set
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G-Banding |
Can look at the Eu- and Hetero- chromatin |
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Chromosome paining |
New tech. that marks each chromosome in it's specific location (with a dye) |
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Karyotype |
22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes |
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Largest chromosome is ____ |
1 |
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Smallest chromosome is ____ |
21 |
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If the centromere is in the middle it's a ____ chromosome |
Metacentric |
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Slight above/below centromere it's a ____ chromosome |
submetacentric
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A bit more above centromere it's a ____ chromosome |
sdf |
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All the way on the top centromere it's a _____ chromosome |
sdf |
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Mitosis parental and daughter cells are identical _____ |
chromosome |
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Meiosis Haploid cells are _____ |
genetically different |
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The evidence of the cross over of the hmologous pair of chroosomes |
Chiasma |
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___ chromosome has about no crossover with other chromosomes |
Y |
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Male spermozoa have a higher ____ than females |
chance of mutation |
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___ sex determination: only some somes, not the sex ones, is invovled |
Genic |
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X-Y System: |
XX female, XY male (humans, mammals) |
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X-O system: |
XX is female X is male (grasshopper) |
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Z-W system: |
ZW is female ZZ is male (Brids, moth, and fish) |
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Haplo-diploid system: |
females (fert.) are diploid and male (unfert) are haploid (ants, wasps and bees) |
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Mamallian X and Y genes are ocated on bird chromosome __ and __4, |
1, 4 |
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W and Z chromosomes are on _ and __ of mammals
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5, 0 |
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The mammalian and bird sex chromsomes have different ____ pairs |
autosomal
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Sex is determined by the ratio of the number of ___ chromosomes to the number of sets of autosomes |
X |
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XX females are ____ |
homogametic |
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XY males are ____ |
heterogametic |
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Y-chromosome has no effect on male ____ but it is required for male fertility |
sex-determination |
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___ plants: male and female flowers on different plants (ex: Ginkgo) have the XY system most likely |
Dioecious |
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____ plants: male and female flowers are on the same plant: Imperfect flowers |
Monoecious plants |
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_____ flower - stamen and pistel on the same flower: rose, bettercup: Self-fertilization |
perfect |
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In species of reptiles, including alligators, some turtles, sex is determined by the ___ at which the egg is incubated |
tempertaure |
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Some species, such as some snails, practice: |
sex change (age specific) |
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The common earthworm and certain snails can be ______ |
hermaphrodites |
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A few species of fish, reptiles, and insects reproduce by parthenogenesis, meaning they are _____ altogether |
female |
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Parthenogenesis is reproduction in the ovum without ______ |
fertilization |
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In some arthropods, mating behavior is determined by _____ |
infection (ie bacteria of the genus Wolbachia) |
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Platypus has ____ sex chromosomes but lacks the ______ gene |
10, SRY (mammalian sex-determining gene) |
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Hemizygous |
Only one chromosome (ie X and Y chromosome in male) |
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The gene transmission shown in the cross from male tofemale offspring (child), to a male grand child. |
Criss-Cross Inheritance |
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Non-disjunction can involve either ____ or ____ chromosomes |
autosomes, sex |
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occurs in an individual with a normal set of sex chromosomes: X and Y
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Primary non-disjunction |
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when it occurs with an abnormal set of sex chromosomes: XX and Y1
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Secondary non-disjunction |
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Klinefelter syndrome chromosomes |
XXY (44 autosomes, 47 chromosomes), XXXY, or XXYY |
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Female contains two copies of X-linked genes. Femalescontain a highly condensed mass of chromatin of one X chromosome, called _______
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Barr body |
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Male XY does or does not contain the Barr body? |
no |
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The Barr body is a highly condensed,and transcriptionally inactive X-chromosome.
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Lyon Hypothesis |
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The X-chromosome (maternally or paternally derived) is randomly ______ |
inactivated |
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X-inactivation is an _____ silencing |
epigenetic (def. relating to gene expression) |
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X-inactivation occurs about ___ day after fertilization in humans |
16th |
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No such mechanism exists for extra _______ |
autosomes |
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Mammals with an extra ___ usually die |
autosomes |
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X-inactivation is selected by the X-controlling element (Xce) in the ___ region |
XIC |
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Inactivation (X): the gene ___ is expressed from the inactive-X |
Xist |
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The Xist gene transcript is 17 kb. During inactivation, this ___ coats chromosomes to be inactivated and silences most of it's genes |
RNA |
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Y-linked inheritance is a _____ trait |
holandric |
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An example of Y-linked inheritance trait is ____ ears |
hairy |
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Cytology is the study of: |
the branch of biology concerned with the structure and function of plant and animal cells. (chromosomes)
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Species with 2 copies of each type of chromosome are considered: |
diploid |
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Humans have ____ pairs of chromosomes |
23 |
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In G-banding, chromosomes are treated with mild heat or proteolytic enzymes that ____ the chromosomes proteins partially with Giemsa stain to produce dark bands called G-bands |
digest |
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The arms of chromosomal pairs have one arm and another arm, the smaller one is labeled with the letter ____ and the bigger ____ |
p, q |
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The chromosomes in humans are labeled from A to G because: |
they have similar morphology |
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G-banding shows about ____ G-bands at metaphase |
300 |
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G-banding shows about ____ bands in prophase |
1000 |
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The BRCA1 (breast cancer susceptibility) gene is located on the chromosome: |
At 17q21 (chromosome 17, long arm, region 21) |
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Regions are counted are assigned from the ____ outward |
centromere |
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Mitosis parental and duaghter cells have ____ chromosomes |
identical |
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Meiosis creates haploids (4) that are genetically _____ |
different |
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During interphase chromosomes are elongated and replicated in the S phase giving two exact copies called ______ chromatids |
sister |
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When the sister chromatids and their centromeres separate they becomes _____ chromosomes |
daughter |
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Chromosome number is ___ in all cells of a species |
constant |
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Eukaryotic microorganism sexes are specified by ____ differences at a small number of gene loci |
allelic differences |
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TDF (Testis determining factor) on ___ causes gonad tissue to differentiate into testis instead of ovaries |
Y |
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An absence of Y chromosome, the gonads develop as ____ |
ovaries |
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A haploid eukaryotes has two sexes: __ and __ mating types |
a and alpha |
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The mating types of these haploid microorganism have the same ____ |
morphologies |
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Mating types of haploid microorganisms are determined by Mat-___ and Mat-___ alleles respectively of a single gene |
a and alpha |
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Sex-linked genes (X Y) are connected to other ______ |
phenotypes (ie skin color, eye color, etc.) |
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____ (1910) found a mutant white eyed male fly, and used it to show a gene for eye color on the X chromosome (Nobel prize in 1933, 1st geneticist) |
Morgan |
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The condition of X-linked genes in males is said to be ____ because only allele present in the male on X chromosome, there is not homologous gene on the Y chromosome |
hemizygous |
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The ____ shows in the cross from male to female offspring (child), to a male grand child |
Criss-Cross Inheritance |
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When homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to move to opposite poles at anaphase (meiosis) _____ takes place |
non-disjunction |
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Non-disjunction can involves autosomes or ____ |
sex chromosomes |
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Primary non-disjunction |
occurs with X and Y (normal set) |
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Secondary non-disjunction |
occurs with XX and Y (abnormal set) |
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Turner Syndrome patients have these chromosomes: |
44 autosomes and 1 X |
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Symptoms of Turner syndrome |
short, web-like neck, underdeveloped breast, immature internal sexual organs, and infertile |
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Symptoms for Klienfelter syndrome |
Taller and underdeveloped testis, subnormal intelligence, some degree of breast development |