Meiosis and Genetics Vocab Practice

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Which Genotype is Recessive?

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Body cells have diploid or haploid number of chromosomes?

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Diploid

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What is a dominant allele?

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A trait that is always shown (capital letter)

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What is the purpose of the mitosis cell cycle?

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To make more of the same cells, for growth and repair, and to prevent the cell from becoming too large.

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What is the result of mitosis?

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2 genetically identical cells

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What is meiosis?

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A type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, resulting in four haploid cells.

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Define haploid.

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A cell that has half the number of chromosomes, typically found in gametes.

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Define diploid.

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A cell that has two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.

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What is an allele?

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A variant form of a gene that can produce different traits.

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What is the difference between homozygous and heterozygous?

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Homozygous has two identical alleles for a trait, while heterozygous has two different alleles.