B1 You and Your Genes

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What are chromosomes?
A chromosome is one very long molecule of DNA
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Were are chromosomes found?
Nucleus
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How many chromosomes are ther in a normal human cell?
46
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What are Genes? What do they do?
Genes are short lengths of a chromosome that controle the production of different characteristics
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What are enzymes? Why are they so important?
Enzymes are proteins that speed up reactions
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What are the 2 types of sex chromosomes in humans? What is needed for a male/female
**(female) or XY(male)
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What does it mean if someone is a carrier?
You containe the alleles for a disease but do not have it?
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Why cant you be a carrier for huntingtons?
Because it is dominent so if you have one allele then you must have the disease
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What are the symptoms of cystic fybrosis?
Build up of mucus causing difficult in breathing
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What are Alleles
Different versions of the same Gene
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How do Genes control the different characteristics shown?
The gene codes for a protein the having these different proteins causes different characteristics
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What does Genotype/Phenotype mean?
A Genotype is all the genes it has/ A Phenotype is the characteristics shown
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Is a persons weight inherited enviromental or both?
Both
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How many chromosomes are found in sex cells (Gametes)
23
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Why do you look a bit like both parents but identicle to neither?
Half your chromosomes come from both parents, so no one has the exact same genes
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What does Homozygous/Heterozygous mean?
Homozygous means to have 2 alleles the same /Heterozygous means to have t2 alleles that are different
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Is the allele for Cystic Fybrosis Dominant or Recessive
Recessive
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Whats the chance of getting Huntingons if one parent has one copy?
50%
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In IVF What is the process of testing embryos for genetc issues?
Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis
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Other then embryo testing whats another use of Genetic testing?
To see if you are a carrier/Before drug perscription
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What are 3 issues with genetic testing?
Not 100% accurate/arent completely safe/Moral issues with having children/Abortion?/Discrimination
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What is a Clone?
A genetically identicle organism
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How can Bacteria and some plants and animals produce asexually?
Bacteria-By division/ Plants-Runners or bulbs/ Animals-greenflys can lay identicle clones
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How are identicle twins formed?
Once an egg is fertilised at the 8 cell stage the egg splits and 2 seperate organisms form
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What are stem cells?
Stem cells are inidentified cells that can become any kind of cell
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What are the 2 kind of stem cells? And there differences?
Embryonic- Can turn into ANY kind of cell/Adult
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Describe one way that stem cells could be used to traet an illness?
Blood Disease can ue bone marrow to replace old blood cells
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