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Summary Genetics and inheritance
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1.
Explain Heredity
Answer: Transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.
2.
Explain inheritance
Answer: set of characteristics passed from parent to offspring
3.
Explain genetics
Answer: study of heredity and variations that occur in the transmission of hereditary characteristics
4.
explain homologous pair
Answer: identical in shape and size. One is maternal and the other paternal.
5.
Explain autosome
Answer: contains two sets of diploid chromosomes. One set maternal, the other paternal.
6.
explain gonosome
Answer: contains one set of haploid chromosomes. Formed by meiosis.
7.
Explain genes
Answer: a particular length of DNA at a particular location on the chromosome that influences a certain characteristic
8.
Explain DNA
Answer: genetic material which makes up a chromosome
9.
What is a locus
Answer: particular position of a gene on a chromosome
10.
explain monogenic inheritance
Answer: characteristics controlled by more than one gene at different loci on one or more chromosomes
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