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●● sister chromatids.
Answer: which of the following has entirely identical DNA sequences?
●● genetics.
Answer: science that deals with the study of heredity and variation
●● Charles Darwin.
Answer: wrote "On the Origin of Species" in 1859
●● Gregor Mendel.
Answer: father of modern genetics; studied garden peas
●● quantitative genetics.
Answer: study of measurable traits
●● study of traits in a group.
Answer: population genetics
●● study of chromosomes.
,Answer: cytogenetics
●● molecular function and structure of genes.
Answer: molecular genetics
●● transmission of genes and traits from generation to generation.
Answer: classical (mendelian) genetics
●● total genetic component of an organism.
Answer: genome
●● chromosomes.
Answer: contain genetic material (DNA, RNA)
●● chromatin.
Answer: chromosomal material in its decondensed, threadlike structure
●● Theodor Boveri.
Answer: found definitive evidence that chromosomes were the vectors
of inheritance
●● Walter Sutton.
, Answer: made connection between rules of inheritance and behavior of
chromosomes after rediscovery of Mendel's research
●● the number of chromosomes in a species.
Answer: chromosome compliment
●● the two members of each pair of a homologous pair of chromosomes
carry alleles for the same genes and, therefore, affect the same traits.
Answer: chromosomal theory of inheritance
●● chromosomes that are closely matched in shape and size; found in
homologous pairs.
Answer: autosomes
●● determine the gender of an organism.
Answer: sex chromosomes
●● interphase and M phase.
Answer: two main phases of the cell cycle
●● period that cells are in when NOT dividing; 90% of cell cycle.
Answer: interphase