Genetics trivia

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• Which scientist uncovered the laws of inheritance through pea breeding experiments?Genetics
• What is the genotype that carries two different alleles at one gene locus?Genetics
• Which cells are made as the result of meiosis?Genetics
• What do we call the structure in which two strands of DNA are twisted around each other?Genetics
• In a eukaryotic cell, in which structure is the genetic material DNA mainly held?Genetics
• What do we call a stretch of DNA that carries an organism's genetic information?Genetics
• Which structure is the genetic material condensed into a rod shape that becomes visible at cell division?Genetics
• What do we call the features of an organism passed from parents to children?Genetics
• In RNA, which base pairs with adenine (A)?Genetics
• In a DNA base pair, which base pairs with adenine (A)?Genetics
• DNA forms a single strand running in a straight line.Genetics
• Mendel is called the father of genetics.Genetics
• A dominant trait is always the trait that appears most often in a population.Genetics
• A diploid organism normally has, for one gene, two alleles received one from each parent.Genetics
• A germ cell made through meiosis has half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.Genetics
• In many organisms the substance that stores genetic information is protein.Genetics
• A gene holds only the experience an organism gathers in its lifetime and has nothing to do with its traits.Genetics
• All siblings born to the same parents are genetically identical.Genetics
• A chromosome is a structure made up of DNA together with protein.Genetics
• Genetic information plays a part in the traits passed from parents to children.Genetics