level: Introduction - Basics of the topic.
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Introduction - Basics of the topic.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Gregor Mendel/What did he do? | He was the man of science, planted plants and obserced their growth. Father of genetics because he gave us the fundamental teachings of genetics. |
| What is one core principle Mendel discovered? | Principle of Independent Assortment - Inheritance of one trait has no effect on the inheritance of another |
| What are genetics? | The study of traits passed on from previous ancestors or parent to offspring. |
| What determines a trait? | Genes, which are on the chromosomes. |
| How many chromosomes are there in a human body? | 46 |
| Where is DNA everywhere EXCEPT? | Red blood cells |
| DNA is the... | blueprint of life, the code different to every individual. |
| What do Base pairs do? | They pair to create code. |
| What are Pyrimidines? | They are the base pairs of Cytosine and Thymine |
| What are Purines? | They are the base pairs of Guanine and Adenine |
| Adenine + Guanine + Cytosine + Thymine must = | 100 |
| DNA is directional, what does this mean? | It means each strand of a DNA molecule run next to eachother, but in opposite directions. |
| A gene is... | a segment of DNA that codes for a protein |