Eukaryotes vs Prokaryotes | Heredity | Name that scientist | The Cell Cycle | TTC (Transformation, Transduction, and Conjugation) |
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What is Binary Fission?
Can self replicate and end up with 4 copies of itself
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What is Incomplete Penetrance?
50% of a functional protein is not sufficient to produce the same trait as the homozygote making 100%
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Who is Frederick Griffith?
Is credited with the two different types of Bacterium
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What is G0 Phase?
referred to as the resting phase of cell division
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What is Conjugation?
Requires cell to cell contact
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What is the Nucleus?
Only exists in Eukaryotic cells
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What is Pleiotropy?
The multiple effects of a single gene on the phenotype of an organism
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Who is Erwin Chargaff?
Discovered the pairing of bases such as Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine
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What is Mitosis?
The process of division in somatic cells
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What is Transformation?
Naked DNA is involved
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What are Prokaryotes?
Does not have membrane-bound organelles
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What is a lethal allele?
An allele that has the potential to cause the death of an organism.
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Who is Rosalind Franklin?
By using crystallography, this scientist was able to identify key structures in DNA
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What is Spermatogenesis?
The process that creates sperm cells
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What is Transduction?
lytic cycle entered in response to stress
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What is Bacteria?
Comes in a rod-like shape
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What is Pangenesis?
Charles Darwin's hypothetical mechanism for heredity
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Who is Friedrich Miescher?
Discovered nuclein from cell nuclei
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What is Ploidy?
Number of copies of a chromosome set
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What is Transduction?
Mediated by a virus
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What is Meiosis?
Allows reproduction through sexual activity
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What is Maternal Effect?
A situation where the phenotype of an organism is determined not only by the environment and its genotype but also by the environment and genotype of its mother.
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Who is Gregor Mendel?
Used pea plants to determine basis of heredity
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What is the Cell Cycle?
Includes several stages such as interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis
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What is Transformation?
Requires competent cells
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