Genetic Variation (Science 9, Alberta - G9 U1 T4)

Organize these options into the right categories

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(a) Continuous variation

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(b) Discrete variation

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Two parents have two different blood types: Type A and Type B blood. In both cases, these two parents also have an O-blood type allele. Place the appropriate labels on this diagram of the blood types of the offspring they are able to have.

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Blood Type O

Blood Type B

Blood Type Zero

Blood Type AB

Blood Type A

Blood Type ABO

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Categorize each of these as a dominant or recessive trait. There are four examples of each.

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(a) Dominant trait

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(b) Recessive trait

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The trait of having polydactylism is a dominant trait. The picture here shows the hand of a person with polydactylism. When we take apart this word, the term "poly" is Greek for ​ (a)   while the term "dactylos" is Greek for ​ (b)   .

• many
• finger
• foot
• hand
• arm
• one
• two
• none
• uncommon

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Rank the following, from best to worst, for the types of families that can be used to study the contrast between nature and nurture in offspring:

• Families with non-identical twins

• Families with many children that aren't twins

• Families with identical twins

• Families with only one child

What is the name of any factor that causes a mutation? (Singular, not plural, answer.)

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Based on their areas of discovery in science involving various factors that cause mutations, all of the following scientists died at an age that was less (some of them significantly less) than their life expectancy when they were alive. Mutations likely played a part in this. Match the names to their faces.

• Clarence Dally (died at 39)

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• Henri Becquerel (died at 55)

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• Marie Curie

  (died at 67)

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• Rosalind Franklin (died at 37)

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• Elizabeth Aschheim

  (died at 38)

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In 1986, a nuclear reactor named Chernobyl No.4 melted down. People who lived in the nearby cities had children in the years after who showed high levels of physical mutations. Where was the Chernobyl reactor located?

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You ability to identify the number is this picture is an assessment of whether or not you are ​ (a)   . This is a genetic trait involving the XX/XY chromosomes, and for this reason, this disorder is more common in ​ (b)   .

• colourblind
• males
• blind
• deaf
• dyslexic
• dysgraphic
• females

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Two identical twins are born and raised together. One spends as much time as possible outdoors, and the other spends as much time as possible indoors.

The one that spends more time outside is ​ (a)   likely to develop skin cancer due to their exposure to ​ (b)   radiation. This would ultimately be an example of a ​ (c)   .

• more
• ultraviolet
• mutation
• less
• infrared
• radiowave
• occasion of pure chance

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