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Biology B1.1 A - What is your genome?
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- 1What is a genome?All the genetic material of an organism.
- 2What is an example of a feature that is a result of only your environment?A scar.
- 3What is an example of a feature affected by both genetic information & environment?Body mass.
- 4How can the environment affect the genome?The environment outside a cell can affect molecules on the cell surface. this can start a chain reaction of changes in the cell cytoplasm, eventually affect how the information in the genome is used - affect your features.
- 5Where is the genetic material in animals found?Inside the nucleus.
- 6What are organisms w/ a nucleus called?Eukaryotic Organisms
- 7What are organisms w/out a nucleus called?Prokaryotic Organisms
- 8Where is genetic information held in prokaryotic organisms?The cytoplasm, & sometimes plasmid.
- 9What is a plasmid?a small loop of genetic material.
- 10What is genetic material stored as?Chromosomes
- 11How many chromosmes are in the human nucleus?46 (23 pairs)
- 12What are chromosomes?Very long molecules of DNA
- 13When and by who was DNA discovered?In 1953 by James Watson & Francis Crick ( After interpreting a photo by Rosalind Franklin & Maurice Wilkins )
- 14How is DNA arranged?2 strands twisted together to form a double helix
- 15What is DNA made from?Lots of small molecules (nucleotides) joined together.
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- GCSE Biology (B1 - You & your genes) FlashCards sobre Biology B1.1 A - What is your genome?, criado por lily bevan em 27-11-2017.
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