What is meiosis?
What is the DNA triangle?
Genome?
All of the chromosomes and DNA they contain, all genetic information.
Chromosome?
- With specific regions along the chromosome where specific bases contain the information needed to make a unique RNA.
Genes?
Functional unit of the chromosome necessary for the encoding of an RNA molecule
Describe the chromosomes of eukaryotic cells?
What is ploidy?
the number of sets of chromosomes per cell
di-ploidy= 2 sets of chromosomes per cell type
What is a human’s chromosome number and what kind of ploidy are most eukaryotes?
What is a haploid?
It is a cell the only carries one pair of homologous chromosomes.
ex: 1n =11
t/f homologous chromosomes are 100% identical?
explain?
False, they have the same structure, size, and gene content, but they lack the exact same version of every gene.
- This is known as two different alleles for the same gene.
What is an allele?
Different versions of the same gene.
Maternal homolog?
Version inherited form the mother
Paternal homolog?
version inherited from the father.
Karyotype?
number and types of chromosomes in the cell.
ex: 2n = 12
meaning we have 6 pairs of chromosomes.
Autosome?
Any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- these do not differ male to female.
Sex Chromosome?
T/F: Meiosis is required by organisms that require bisexual reproduction?
Why?
True,
T/F mitosis has the same result as meiosis?
Why/why not?
T/F most of the cells in our bodies replicate via meiosis? Why/Why not?
What are somatic cells?
How many rounds of division occur in meiosis?
- What cells does this occur in?
Germ cells: give rise to sperm or eggs
What is feralization?
What is the product of feralization?
Describe the Mitosis/meiosis cycle?
zygote—>Mitosis(during development)—> Diploid adult/kid 2n—->meiosis (once grown and ready to trade genetic information)
What is the order leading up to meiosis?
g1–>s–>g2—>Meiosis
- chromosomes were replicated in the S phase and then enters G2 and then to meiosis as a replicated version .
What is the name for two chromatids between two different members of the same homologous pair?
non-sister chromatids.