B IO 205 - Chapter 8: Micr obial
Genetics Questions and answ er s
w ith accur ate
r ationales(PASSED)
- the science of heredity
- includes:
1) the study of what genes are
2) how they carry information
3) how they are replicated and passed to subsequent generations of cells or
passed between organisms
4) how the expression of their information within an organism determines the
particular characteristics of that organism - answer Genetics
- the genetic information in a cell - answer Genome
- structures containing DNA that physically carry hereditary information
- contain genes - answer Chromosomes
- segments of DNA (except in some viruses, in which they are made of RNA) that
code for functional products - answer Genes
- always occur in a specific way
, - adenine pairs with thymine
- cytosine pairs with guanine - answer Base Pairs
- the set of rules that determines how a nucleotide sequence is converted int the
amino acid sequence of a protein - answer Genetic Code
- the genetic makeup of an organism
- the information that codes for all the particular characteristics of the organism
- represents potential properties - answer Genotype
- refers to actual, expressed properties
- Ex.:
1) the organism's ability to perform a particular chemical reactions
- the manifestation of genotype - answer Phenotype
- noncoding regions
- occur in most genomes
- repeating sequences of two-to five-base sequences
- used in DNA fingerprinting - answer Short Tandem Repeats (STRs)
- the sequencing and molecular characterization of genomes - answer Genomics
- an enzyme that joins the newly added nucleotide to the growing DNA strand -
answer DNA Polymerase
Genetics Questions and answ er s
w ith accur ate
r ationales(PASSED)
- the science of heredity
- includes:
1) the study of what genes are
2) how they carry information
3) how they are replicated and passed to subsequent generations of cells or
passed between organisms
4) how the expression of their information within an organism determines the
particular characteristics of that organism - answer Genetics
- the genetic information in a cell - answer Genome
- structures containing DNA that physically carry hereditary information
- contain genes - answer Chromosomes
- segments of DNA (except in some viruses, in which they are made of RNA) that
code for functional products - answer Genes
- always occur in a specific way
, - adenine pairs with thymine
- cytosine pairs with guanine - answer Base Pairs
- the set of rules that determines how a nucleotide sequence is converted int the
amino acid sequence of a protein - answer Genetic Code
- the genetic makeup of an organism
- the information that codes for all the particular characteristics of the organism
- represents potential properties - answer Genotype
- refers to actual, expressed properties
- Ex.:
1) the organism's ability to perform a particular chemical reactions
- the manifestation of genotype - answer Phenotype
- noncoding regions
- occur in most genomes
- repeating sequences of two-to five-base sequences
- used in DNA fingerprinting - answer Short Tandem Repeats (STRs)
- the sequencing and molecular characterization of genomes - answer Genomics
- an enzyme that joins the newly added nucleotide to the growing DNA strand -
answer DNA Polymerase
