Bio 112 Study Guide

What is the term for an organism that has more or less than the normal chromosome number?

Ch.11 Mendel

Pisum Sativum  

Dominant and recessive  

Phenotype- physical appearance

Genotype- genetic makeup

Polygenetic inheritance- inheritance of a genetic character

Ch.12 units of heredity

Alleles- one is functional, the other’s dysfunctional

46 chromosomes – 22 pair of autosomes

Aneuploidy- an organism has either more or fewer chromosomes than normal Ch.13 DNA

Watson and Crick- structure of DNA

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Ch.14 Proteins

20 amino acids – polypeptide chains  

Transcription (mRNA) Translation (tRNA)

What is the smallest unit of population?

What are the characteristics of the watson and crick dna structure?

Ch.16/17 evolution

Darwin- theory of evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace

Population- smallest unit that evolves

Microevolution- change of allele We also discuss several other topics like Define marketing myopia.
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Macroevolution- formation of new species