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BIOL 133 Week 9 Chapter 13 Study Questions with Answers
- What is the difference between a karyotype and a karyogram?
- Which is likely to disrupt the function of the most genes: a 500kb deletion, a 500kb inversion, or a 500kb translocation?
- Why do so many geneticists focus on studying yeast, fruit flies, nematodes, mice or the small plant Arabidopsis?
- Serious disease syndromes are associated with trisomy of chromosome 21 (Down syndrome), 18 (Edwards syndrome) and 13 (Patau syndrome). What is the result of trisomy of the other chromosomes?
- A karyogram that contains 23 pairs of chromosomes with a different pair for the 23rd pair would describe a(n)
- The most common time individual assortment occurs is when genes are ________?
- If the parents are AABBCC X aabbcc, what would represent the parental gametes? Select all that apply
- Nondisjunction during meiosis I will result in ________.
- Your study partner is confused. “I thought Watson and Crick discovered genes – who are all these other people?” Help out by matching each discovery with the scientist(s) who made it.
- Combination of alleles that independently assort is usually higher than the number of chromosomes because
