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G-Banding

Can look at the Eu- and Hetero- chromatin

Chromosome paining

New tech. that marks each chromosome in it's specific location (with a dye)

Karyotype

22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes

Largest chromosome is ____

1

Smallest chromosome is ____

21

If the centromere is in the middle it's a ____ chromosome

Metacentric

Slight above/below centromere it's a ____ chromosome

submetacentric

A bit more above centromere it's a ____ chromosome

sdf

All the way on the top centromere it's a _____ chromosome

sdf

Mitosis parental and daughter cells are identical _____

chromosome

Meiosis Haploid cells are _____

genetically different

The evidence of the cross over of the hmologous pair of chroosomes

Chiasma

___ chromosome has about no crossover with other chromosomes

Y

Male spermozoa have a higher ____ than females

chance of mutation

___ sex determination: only some somes, not the sex ones, is invovled

Genic

X-Y System:

XX female, XY male (humans, mammals)

X-O system:

XX is female X is male (grasshopper)

Z-W system:

ZW is female ZZ is male (Brids, moth, and fish)

Haplo-diploid system:

females (fert.) are diploid and male (unfert) are haploid (ants, wasps and bees)

Mamallian X and Y genes are ocated on bird chromosome __ and __4,

1, 4

W and Z chromosomes are on _ and __ of mammals

5, 0

The mammalian and bird sex chromsomes have different ____ pairs

autosomal

Sex is determined by the ratio of the number of ___ chromosomes to the number of sets of autosomes

X

XX females are ____

homogametic

XY males are ____

heterogametic

Y-chromosome has no effect on male ____ but it is required for male fertility

sex-determination

___ plants: male and female flowers on different plants (ex: Ginkgo) have the XY system most likely

Dioecious

____ plants: male and female flowers are on the same plant: Imperfect flowers

Monoecious plants

_____ flower - stamen and pistel on the same flower: rose, bettercup: Self-fertilization

perfect

In species of reptiles, including alligators, some turtles, sex is determined by the ___ at which the egg is incubated

tempertaure

Some species, such as some snails, practice:

sex change (age specific)

The common earthworm and certain snails can be ______

hermaphrodites

A few species of fish, reptiles, and insects reproduce by parthenogenesis, meaning they are _____ altogether

female

Parthenogenesis is reproduction in the ovum without ______

fertilization

In some arthropods, mating behavior is determined by _____

infection (ie bacteria of the genus Wolbachia)

Platypus has ____ sex chromosomes but lacks the ______ gene

10, SRY (mammalian sex-determining gene)

Hemizygous

Only one chromosome (ie X and Y chromosome in male)

The gene transmission shown in the cross from male tofemale offspring (child), to a male grand child.

Criss-Cross Inheritance

Non-disjunction can involve either ____ or ____ chromosomes

autosomes, sex

occurs in an individual with a normal set of sex chromosomes: X and Y

Primary non-disjunction

when it occurs with an abnormal set of sex chromosomes: XX and Y1

Secondary non-disjunction

Klinefelter syndrome chromosomes

XXY (44 autosomes, 47 chromosomes), XXXY, or XXYY

Female contains two copies of X-linked genes. Femalescontain a highly condensed mass of chromatin of one X chromosome, called _______

Barr body

Male XY does or does not contain the Barr body?

no

The Barr body is a highly condensed,and transcriptionally inactive X-chromosome.

Lyon Hypothesis

The X-chromosome (maternally or paternally derived) is randomly ______

inactivated

X-inactivation is an _____ silencing

epigenetic (def. relating to gene expression)

X-inactivation occurs about ___ day after fertilization in humans

16th

No such mechanism exists for extra _______

autosomes

Mammals with an extra ___ usually die

autosomes

X-inactivation is selected by the X-controlling element (Xce) in the ___ region

XIC

Inactivation (X): the gene ___ is expressed from the inactive-X

Xist

The Xist gene transcript is 17 kb. During inactivation, this ___ coats chromosomes to be inactivated and silences most of it's genes

RNA

Y-linked inheritance is a _____ trait

holandric

An example of Y-linked inheritance trait is ____ ears

hairy

Cytology is the study of:

the branch of biology concerned with the structure and function of plant and animal cells. (chromosomes)

Species with 2 copies of each type of chromosome are considered:

diploid

Humans have ____ pairs of chromosomes

23

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

The arms of chromosomal pairs have one arm and another arm, the smaller one is labeled with the letter ____ and the bigger ____

p, q

The chromosomes in humans are labeled from A to G because:

they have similar morphology

G-banding shows about ____ G-bands at metaphase

300

G-banding shows about ____ bands in prophase

1000

The BRCA1 (breast cancer susceptibility) gene is located on the chromosome:

At 17q21 (chromosome 17, long arm, region 21)

Regions are counted are assigned from the ____ outward

centromere

Mitosis parental and duaghter cells have ____ chromosomes

identical

Meiosis creates haploids (4) that are genetically _____

different

During interphase chromosomes are elongated and replicated in the S phase giving two exact copies called ______ chromatids

sister

When the sister chromatids and their centromeres separate they becomes _____ chromosomes

daughter

Chromosome number is ___ in all cells of a species

constant

Eukaryotic microorganism sexes are specified by ____ differences at a small number of gene loci

allelic differences

TDF (Testis determining factor) on ___ causes gonad tissue to differentiate into testis instead of ovaries

Y

An absence of Y chromosome, the gonads develop as ____

ovaries

A haploid eukaryotes has two sexes: __ and __ mating types

a and alpha

The mating types of these haploid microorganism have the same ____

morphologies

Mating types of haploid microorganisms are determined by Mat-___ and Mat-___ alleles respectively of a single gene

a and alpha

Sex-linked genes (X Y) are connected to other ______

phenotypes (ie skin color, eye color, etc.)

____ (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

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

The ____ shows in the cross from male to female offspring (child), to a male grand child

Criss-Cross Inheritance

When homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to move to opposite poles at anaphase (meiosis) _____ takes place

non-disjunction

Non-disjunction can involves autosomes or ____

sex chromosomes

Primary non-disjunction

occurs with X and Y (normal set)

Secondary non-disjunction

occurs with XX and Y (abnormal set)

Turner Syndrome patients have these chromosomes:

44 autosomes and 1 X

Symptoms of Turner syndrome

short, web-like neck, underdeveloped breast, immature internal sexual organs, and infertile

Symptoms for Klienfelter syndrome

Taller and underdeveloped testis, subnormal intelligence, some degree of breast development