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AP Biology
Chromosomes and Human Inheritance
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Biology
12th Grade
05/03/2011

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Term
Sex chromosomes
Definition
A chromosomes that helps to determine a sex of an individual
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Autosomes
Definition
Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
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Karyotype
Definition
The act of characterizing chromosomes by size, length, or centromere location
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Deletion
Definition
The loss of a portion of a chromosome
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Duplications
Definition
copies of DNA sequences on a chrmosome
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Inversion
Definition
Part of DNa sequence in a chromosome becomes reversed
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Translocation
Definition
The broken part of a chromosome attaches to another part
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Aneuploidy
Definition
The act of cells ahving one more or one less chromosome
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Syndrome
Definition
A group of symptoms
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