Genetics

Question	Answer
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
Karyotype	A diagram demonstrating the shape and size of each chromosome
Homologous Chromosomes	Chromosomes with the same length and genes for particular characteristics that are at the same location on a Karyotype
A punnet Square	Image: punnet_square.PNG (image/PNG)
Incomplete Dominance	Where no one trait is more dominant than the other - creating a compromise
Allele	A trait (e.g. X in XY)
Homozygous	Where a gene creates two of the same allele's
Heterozygous	Where a gene contains two different Alleles (e.g. Br)
A G T C	Adenine Guanine Thymine Cytosine
IPMATC	Interphase Prophase Metaphase Telephase Cytokinesis
Intephase	The replication of a cells contents
Prophase	The chromosomes shorten and thicken and become more easily defined
Metaphase	Chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell
Anaphase	Chromosomes are pulled apart to to opposite sides of the cell by the spindle fibres
Anaphase	Chromosomes are pulled apart to to opposite sides of the cell by the spindle fibres
Telephase	The membrane pinches together to break the cells apart
Diploid cells	Cells that are created through mitosis
Haploid cells	The 4 cells that are created through meiosis (all different genes within)
AGTCGATCGATCA	TCAGCTAGCTAGT

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