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What is a prokaryote/

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Single celled organism with no nuclear membrane, or organelles, dna is signle strand in cytoplasm

2
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What is a eukaryote?

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YOU! multi-celled organism with membrane bound nucleus, with genetic material and organelles.

3
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What is the nucleus?

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Houses nearly all genetic material, covered by membrane

4
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What is the endoplasmic reticulum?`

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surrounds nuclear membrane, aids in protein synthesis

5
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what is the mitochondria?

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generates mostof the energy, houses MtDNA

6
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What is the difference between somatic cells and Gametes?

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Somatic cells make up everything except sex cells, which are eggs and sperm

7
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why is mtDNA important?

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mitochondria turns oxygen into ATP, which is energy, given to us by mother

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How does DNA reproduce itself?

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Takes place in Nucleus, leads to production of somatic cells (mitosis) or gametes (meosis). Seperation begins between a double helix, enzymes break H bonds, and dna is unzipped, exposed, they attract free floating nucleotides, which bond. replication complete

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What is the process of Mitosis?

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  1. DNA is replicated
  2. chromosomes are duplicated
  3. chromosomes line up, spindle forms
  4. as cell divides, dna seperates, each new cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes
10
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what is a phenotype?

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the physical expression of a gene

11
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what is a genotype?

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the information within genes that make an expression of alleles

12
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what is Mendels law of segregation?

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two alleles for any given trait are inherited, one from each parent,

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what is Mendels Law of independent assortment?

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the inheritance of one trait does not affect the inheritance of others. (as seen in Meiosis 1)