Genetics Review Questions

Review Questions made by the Year 10's

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Draw a double helix and label it.	What are the nitrogen bases?	What is DNA made up of?	What is phenotypic plasticity?
What does semi – conservative mean?	What is DNA replication?	DNA replication begins with?	What is a genotype?
What is a phenotype?	What is the phenotype influenced by?	What plays a major role in your genetics?	What is mutation?
What is an example of a good type of mutation?	What is an example of a bad type of mutation?	What are genes made up of?	What is the relationship between DNA and protein?
Describe the steps for protein synthesis.	What is a gene?	What is an allele?	Write an example of a dominant allele and recessive allele.
If you are born in a hot area are you more resistant to heat or less resistant?	What is DNA responsible for? What shape is DNA?	What part of DNA is responsible for the inheritance of characteristics?	What four nucleotide bases bind to make DNA?
What is a karyotype?	What is the function of a karyotype?	What does a human karyotype look like? Draw an example.	Explain how the gender of a baby is determined.
What are the female and male sex gametes called?	What are the sex chromosomes that males and females have?	Complete the Punnett Square with the parents’ sex chromosomes.	What is the probability of obtaining a male or female child?
What is a mutagen?	What are some other environmental factors that can cause mutations?	When cells undergo mitosis, new cells contain the same number of chromosomes as the original cell. True / False?	When cells undergo meiosis, do new cells have the same chromosomal number as the original cell?
When mitosis occurs, how many new cells are created? (1, 2, or 3).	What is heterozygous?	What is homozygous?	Explain what a recessive trait is. What happens when you have a recessive trait?

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