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ATP is the energy currency of cells
genetics The study of physical inheritance among living
things is
A, T, G, or C The information used to make proteins is encoded
by the four bases
The result of an error in anaphase One cell would have an extra chromosome, and
that failed to separate a pair of sister one cell would lack a chromosome
chromatids would result in
are aligned at the equator of a cell Chromosomes
during metaphase
during prophase The chromosomes become visible and the nucleus
starts to break up
during anaphase Sister chromatids are separating from each other
How do daughter cells at the end of The daughter cells have the same number of
mitosis and cytokinesis compare with chromosomes and the same amount of DNA
the parent cell before DNA
replication occurs?
, an organism that would reproduce Bacteria
by binary fission
zygote The fertilization of an egg by a sperm produces a
cell called
The products of meiosis four haploid cells
What is the result of recombination It creates chromosomes that are a new
(crossing over) during meiosis? combination of paternal and maternal material
What is the result of independent Genetically diverse gametes are produced
assortment during meiosis?
An autosome is one of the non-sex chromosomes
A human egg contains 22 autosomes and one X chromosome
phenotype is the term for an observable trait of an organism
Mendel crossed true breeding pea plants and found?- the dominant trait
always appeared in the F1 generation, but it
appeared in a 3:1 ratio of dominant to recessive in
the F2 generation
The Law of Segregation states that differing characters in organisms result
from two alleles that separate in gamete formation,
such that each gamete gets only one of the two
alleles
homozygous When two identical alleles for a character are
present, the genotype is referred to as