Genetics trivia

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• What do we call a group of three bases in mRNA that specifies one amino acid?Genetics
• Which sugar joins the phosphate and the base to form a nucleotide in DNA?Genetics
• What pair of sex chromosomes does a woman carry?Genetics
• In the ABO system, what blood type does a person have after inheriting one A gene and one B gene?Genetics
• What do we call an illness caused by genetic information inherited from one's parents?Genetics
• Which substance does a cell build from the information written in a gene, so that a trait shows on the outside?Genetics
• What do we call the small differences in appearance and character seen between individuals of the same species?Genetics
• What do we call a pair of chromosomes of the same size and shape, one inherited from each parent?Genetics
• In Down syndrome, which chromosome is present in one extra copy?Genetics
• Which pattern of inheritance gives an intermediate trait, such as pink flowers from a cross of red and white ones?Genetics
• Mitochondrial DNA reaches a child through the father.Genetics
• A trait that varies continuously, such as human height, is set by a single gene.Genetics
• A mutation that arises in a body cell such as a skin or liver cell is normally not passed on to offspring.Genetics
• Identical twins come from a single fertilized egg that splits in two.Genetics
• A trait carried by only one of the two parents cannot be passed on to a child.Genetics
• DNA is found only in animals, not in plants or bacteria.Genetics
• Sex chromosomes take part in deciding a person's sex.Genetics
• Two parents who both have blood type A can have a child with blood type O.Genetics
• Red-green color blindness is tied to a gene on the X chromosome and shows up more often in men.Genetics
• The many breeds of dogs and cats are the result of people choosing and mating animals that had the traits they wanted.Genetics
• A dominant trait is the trait that appears most often in a population.Genetics
• 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 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