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42 Cards in this Set
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color blind
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sex linked disorder on x chromosome
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Chromosome pair 23
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determines sex
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What is RNA's ultimate goal?
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to make a protein
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Mutation
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DNA altered or copied incorrectly
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eyes
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example of polygenic inheritance
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Punnett square
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can help predict the probability of offspring
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What does t in tRNA stand for?
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transfer
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Red X White = Pink Hybrid
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Incomplete dominance
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What does tRNA do?
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translates RNA into a protein and finally a trait
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Incomplete dominance
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Neither allele for a trait is dominant
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Chromosomal disorders
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disorder linked to a specific chromosome pair
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Sex linked disorder
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linked to X or Y chromosome
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blood
A,B, AB and O |
example of multiple alleles
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Phenotype
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the organisms look or appearance
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What does mRNA do?
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changes DNA to RNA
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poly
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many
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What does m in mRNA stand for?
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messenger
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Recessive allele
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trait disappears
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Color blindness
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linked to X chromosome
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Heterozygous
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two alleles for one trait are different
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Alleles
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different forms of a trait
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XY
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male
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Genetics
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study of genes and how traits are inherited
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Purebred
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unmixed breeding same traits
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Homozygous
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two alleles for one trait are the same
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Multiple alleles
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more than two alleles
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Genotype
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genetic makeup
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Recessive genetic disorder
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linked to recessive alleles and both parents must have it
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Down Syndrome
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chromosome disorder on the 21 pair
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Pedigree
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follows a trait through generations
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Gregor Mendel
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father of genetics
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XX
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female
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Polygenic inheritance
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many genes act to produce a trait
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G,C,T,A and U are all
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nitrogen bases
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Heredity
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passing of traits
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DNA Nitrogen bases
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guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine
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Replaces thymine in RNA
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uracil
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Dominant allele
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covers up or dominates the other trait
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Lowercase letter
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recessive allele
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Uppercase letters
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dominant allele
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Cystic fibrosis
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Recessive genetic disorder
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Hybrid
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different genetic information for a trait from each parent
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