What is Genetics?

Branch of biology that deals with heredity, variation and the expression of inherited traits

All organisms use _ as genetic material.

Process of converting DNA to mRNA

Process of converting mRNA to protein

Genes are expressed at the _ level.

Proteins function at the _ level.

Organism's traits determined by characteristics of _.

Chemical nature of genes, control and expression of genetic information; gene is focus

Passage of genes from parent to offspring, offspring traits; individual is focus

Genetic composition of populations and how it changes over time and geographic location; population's gene pool (frequency of genes in population) is focus

Unit of heredity; a segment of DNA that produces a functional product (usually a polypeptide)

Unique structure stores information that codes for proteins that have some function in the cell

Four criteria that must be met for genetic material

In 1928, Griffith experimented with Streptococcus pneumoniae, which identified a __.

Describe Griffith's experiments

In the 1940s, Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's biochemically purified bacterial extracts, which helped figure out that the "transforming principle" was _.

Describe the "Transforming principle" isolation experiment

In 1952, Hershey and Chase's experiments with T2 bacteriophage, which supported that _.