inheritance

Question 1

Homologous chromosomes

Answer 1

are a pair of chromosomes in a diploid cell that have the same
structure as each other, with the same genes (but not necessarily the same alleles of those
genes) at the same loci, and that pair together to form a bivalent during the first division of
meiosis

Question 2

autosomes

Answer 2

There are 22 matching chromosomes in humans (homologous chromosomes)

Question 3

sex chromosomes

Answer 3

and a non-matching pair labelled X and Y; two sets of 23
chromosomes – one set of 23 from the father and one set of 23 from the mother

Question 4

gene

Answer 4

length of DNA that codes for a particular protein or polypeptide

Question 5

allele