MODULE 1

Question 1

Three Branches of Genetics

Answer 1

Transmission Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Population Genetics

Question 2

[Term] Transmission of genes from generation to generation and how genes recombine.

Answer 2

Transmission Genetics

Question 3

[Term] Structure and functions of genes at the molecular level.

Answer 3

Molecular Genetics

Question 4

What is CYTOGENETICS

Answer 4

Study of chromosomes by light microscopy and the method by which chromosomal aberrations are identified. (Internal)

Question 4

[Term] Distribution of genes in populations.

Answer 4

Population Genetics

Question 4

[Term] A piece of DNA that carries the information needed to make a specific protein. (External)

Answer 4

Trait

Question 5

Types of Chromosomes

Answer 5

Autosomes, Sex Chromosoms.

Question 6

[Term] A complete set of chromosomes in a species.

Answer 6

Karyotype

Question 7

[Term] Complete set of genetic instructions

Answer 7

Genome

Question 8

2 Sex chromosoms

Answer 8

X, Y

Question 9

What are the female chromosomes

Answer 9

XY

Question 10

What are the male chromosomes

Answer 10

XX

Question 11

[WHO] grew peas and became interested in the traits that were expressed in different generations of peas.

Answer 11

Gregor Mendel, an austrian monk

Question 12

[Term] Organisms that have 2 identical alleles for a trait

Answer 12

Homozygous

Question 13

[TERM] Physical characteristics

Answer 13

Phenotype

Question 14

[TERM] Genetic make-up

Answer 14

Genotype

Question 15

[TERM] When more than two possible alleles exist in a population

Answer 15

Multiple Alleles

Question 16

[WHO] Who was the Punnet Squares named after

Answer 16

Reginald C. Punnet

Question 17

[TERM]
- Not compatible with life
- A person who has two unhealthy genes (homozygous dominant or heterozygous)

Answer 17

Autosomal Dominant

Question 18

[TERM] Disease that degenerates the Nervous system and would not show symptoms until past the reproductive age (Menoposal)

Answer 18

Huntington’s disease