fertilisation in flowering plants:pollen grain is
attracted by chemicals from the ovule and
grows in a pollen tube towards it. when it gets
there, one nucelus fuses with the female
gamete and the other two go on to make the
endosperm
fertilisation in mammals: sperm are attracted to the chemical releasedby the egg, when the sperm reach
the egg the acrosome reaction is triggered by chemicals from the follicle cells on the ovum. This
causes the acrosome to swell and fuse with the sperm csm which released digestive enzymes that eat
the zona pellucida. After this the sperm can fuse with the egg's csm. once this happens and the sperm's
nucleus enters, lysosomes in the ovum release enzymes that thicken the zona pellucida so no more
sperm can enter
meiosis leads to genetic variation
because it recobines alleles in new
ways and there is sometimes crossing
over where bits of chromasome swap
root tip squash = aecetic alcohol ---> ice water ----> heated HCL
----> aecetic alcohol ---> maceration --->blot and look at under
microscope
topic 4
Biodiversity is the variety of life in the world
or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
Endemism is when an organism is
Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular
locality
A2
DNA profiling relies on introns which are sections of DNA
that dont code for proteins and can therefore be different
without affecting the person
within introns short dna sequences are repeated many times. the
sequences are known as short tandem repeats (STRs). They can
range from 2 to 50 base pairs and be repeated from 5 to several
hundred times. The same STRs occur at the same place on both
chromosomes of a homologous pair but the number of times they
are repeated can be different. The number of repeats at a locus
also varies between people
each person has a large number of introns with lots of STR loci. There is a
large variation in the number of repeats at each locus. This means that no
one has the same combination of STRs and we can create a unique DNA
profile