NCEA LEVEL 1 GENETICS UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

NCEA LEVEL 1 GENETICS UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. Gamete
Answer:
sex cell

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2. Zygote
Answer:
fertilized egg

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3. Heterozygous
Answer:
two different alleles

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4. Recessive
Answer:
the allele that is only expressed if homozygous

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5. Dominant
Answer:
the allele that is always expressed if present

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6. Homozygous
Answer:
Both alleles the same

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7. DNA
Answer:
a long molecule that holds all of the genetic information of an organism

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8. Adenine
Answer:
The base that pairs with Thymine in DNA

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9. Allele

, Answer:
one of a number of different forms of a gene

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10. Amino Acid
Answer:
basic building blocks of protein - there are 20 different kinds.

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11. Anther
Answer:
Found in plant flowers, carries pollen - the male gamete of plants

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12. asexual reproduction
Answer:
reproduction that does not involve the union of gametes and in which a single parent produces offspring
that are genetically identical to the parent

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13. Autosomes
Answer:
Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome

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14. base
Answer:
1 of 4 chemicals that make up the rungs of the DNA ladder.

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15. base pair
Answer:
two nucleotides on complementary strands of DNA that form a pair, linked by hydrogen bonds; the pattern
of pairing is adenine (A) with thymine (T) and cytosine (C) with guanine (G)

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16. biodiversity
Answer:
Variation of a species within an ecosystem

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17. cell
Answer:
basic unit of life

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18. cell division