Genetics

Genetic material is passed from parents through reproductive cells, _____ and _____, to offspring creating a link from generation to generation

Study of heredity and variation

The occurrence of differences among individuals of the same species

Nuclear structures that carry the genes containing genetic material

_____ are found at a fixed location on the chromosome

The basic unit of inheritance

A gene is a defined unit of ____ composed of a certain _______ _______

Double stranded molecule composed of nucleotides

Nucleotides are composed of what 3 things?

Bases can be classified as a _____ or a _____

Two purines

Two pyrimidines

Adenine bonds to______ Cytosine bonds to______

______ are double ringed and ______ are single ringed

Double helix structure founded by who?

Process where mRNA is formed from DNA

Process where mRNA is converted to a protein

3 base sequence provided for a specific protein after _____ attaches to ribosome

____ attaches to a specific amino acid based in a 3 base sequence called an ____ ____

Occur in pairs in mammalian cells and the number is constant for a species

All cells have a full set of ______ (2n:____) except for reproductive cells which one have n (____)

For each pair of chromosomes in an individual, one came from the ____ and one came from the _____

Chromosome numbers Man Cattle Swine Horse Sheep All are haploid or diploid?

What determines the sex of the animal? XY=_____ XX=_____