GENETICS EXAM REVIEWED
SUMMARY
genome
The complete set of genetic instructions for an organism is
its ___
population
______ genetics is the division that is essentially a study
of evolution
model
A long generation time is not a useful characteristic for a
___ genetic organism
heredity
The domestication of plants and animals is the evidence
for early understanding of the principles of ____
Mendel
______ discovered the basic principles of heredity
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
___ ____ ___ ___ is the concept that proposes that traits
acquired in a person's lifetime become incorporated into
that person's hereditary information and is passed on to
offspring
Darwin
____ was a 19th century biologist who put forth the theory
of evolution through natural selection and published his
idea in the book entitled on the origin of species
alleles
multiple forms of one gene are called ____
, ability to replicate and store genetic information
Suppose that life exists elsewhere in the universe. All life
must contain some type of genetic information, but alien
genomes might not consist of nucleic acids or have the
same features as those found in the genomes of life on
Earth.
What might be the common features of all genomes, no
matter where they exist?
S
Stage of the cell cycle when the cell duplicates its DNA
polyploid
eukaryotic cells that contain more than two sets of genetic
information are referred to as ____
centromere
the constricted region of the chromosome where the
kinetochore forms
mitosis
the products of ___ are normally genetically identical to
the parent cell
anaphase
Stage of mitosis that involves sister chromatids separating
and moving toward opposite poles
anaphase 1
stage of meiosis where the separation of homologous
chromosomes occurs
prophase 1
Meiosis results in genetic variation among its product
cells. One source of this genetic variation is the random
distribution of maternal and paternal chromosomes, and
SUMMARY
genome
The complete set of genetic instructions for an organism is
its ___
population
______ genetics is the division that is essentially a study
of evolution
model
A long generation time is not a useful characteristic for a
___ genetic organism
heredity
The domestication of plants and animals is the evidence
for early understanding of the principles of ____
Mendel
______ discovered the basic principles of heredity
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
___ ____ ___ ___ is the concept that proposes that traits
acquired in a person's lifetime become incorporated into
that person's hereditary information and is passed on to
offspring
Darwin
____ was a 19th century biologist who put forth the theory
of evolution through natural selection and published his
idea in the book entitled on the origin of species
alleles
multiple forms of one gene are called ____
, ability to replicate and store genetic information
Suppose that life exists elsewhere in the universe. All life
must contain some type of genetic information, but alien
genomes might not consist of nucleic acids or have the
same features as those found in the genomes of life on
Earth.
What might be the common features of all genomes, no
matter where they exist?
S
Stage of the cell cycle when the cell duplicates its DNA
polyploid
eukaryotic cells that contain more than two sets of genetic
information are referred to as ____
centromere
the constricted region of the chromosome where the
kinetochore forms
mitosis
the products of ___ are normally genetically identical to
the parent cell
anaphase
Stage of mitosis that involves sister chromatids separating
and moving toward opposite poles
anaphase 1
stage of meiosis where the separation of homologous
chromosomes occurs
prophase 1
Meiosis results in genetic variation among its product
cells. One source of this genetic variation is the random
distribution of maternal and paternal chromosomes, and
