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1
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What are alleles?

A

Different versions of the same gene

2
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How are alleles represented in genetic diagrams?

A

Letters

3
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What does Homozygous mean?

A

If an organism has 2 alleles for a particular gene that are the same

4
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What does Heterozygous mean?

A

If an organism has 2 alleles for a particular gene that are different

5
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If the 2 alleles are different, only one can determine what [ ] is present.

A

characteristic

6
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What is a dominant allele?

A

The dominant allele is the allele for the characteristic that is shown. Capital letter

7
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What is a recessive allele?

A

For an organism t display a recessive allele, both its alleles must be recessive. Small letter

8
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What needs to happen for a dominant allele to be shown?

A

The organism can either be Cc or CC. because the dominant allele overrules the recessive alleles one if the animal is heterozygous

9
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What’s a genotype?

A

Means what alleles you have

10
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What’s a phenotype?

A

Means the actual characteristic (brown hair)

11
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What’s a monohybrid?

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When you cross 2 parents to look at just 1 characteristic

12
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What is cystic fibrosis?

A

A genetic disorder of the cell membranes. It results in the body producing a lot of thick sticky mucus in the air passages and in the pancreas

13
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cystic fibrosis is caused by [ ] allele

A

recessive ‘f’

14
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About 1 in [ ] carry the cystic fibrosis allele

A

25

15
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Who are carriers of cystic fibrosis?

A

Because it’s recessive, people with only one copy of the allele won’t have the disorder = carriers

16
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If both parents are carriers what is the chance that their child will have cystic fibrosis?

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1/4

17
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What is polydactyly?

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A genetic disorder where a baby’s born wit extra fingers or toes. - not life threatening

18
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polydavtyly is caused by a [ ] allele, ‘[ ]’

A

Dominant, ‘D’

19
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Talk about who will inherit polydactyly

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It can be inherited if just 1 parent carries the defective allele.
The parent that has the defective allele will be a sufferer too since the allele is dominant

20
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If 1 parent is heterozygous for polydactyly and the other parent is normal, what is the chance that their child will have polydactyly?

A

50%