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Genetics Test 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
02/01/2011

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Term
Lethal Gene
Definition
Gene causes the individual to die before birth.
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Fatal Gene
Definition
A gene causes a syndrome that will eventually kill an individual, after birth.
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Wild Type
Definition
The allele most common in the population.
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Penetrance
Definition
The chance that an individual will show the characteristic if they have the correct geneotype.
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Variable Expressivity
Definition
Different expression of the characteristic; same genotype, different phenotype.
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Genomic Imprinting
Definition
Different expression depending on which parent passes the allele (methylation).
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Prokaryotic cell
Definition
Simple cels with their DNA arranged as a single circular chromosome.
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Homologous chromosomes
Definition
Chromosomes are the same but with differences. (e.g. hair color)
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Sister chromotids
Definition
Copies of DNA, exactly the same.
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Phenotype
Definition
What we observe, "characteristic"
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Genotype
Definition
List of two alleles the individual received from its parents. Combination of alleles that make up an individual.
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