A | B |
Male Mammals | XY |
Female Mammals | XX |
Polyploidy | extra or missing chromosomes |
Aneuploidy | very small chromosomes |
Down Syndrome | extra #21 |
Mitosis | My Toes -- division of normal body cells |
Meiosis | division of germinal cells to produce sperm and egg |
1N (egg) + 2N (sperm) = | 2N (life) |
Spermatogenisis | meiotic production of sperm cells |
Oogenesis | meiotic production of egg cells |
Ribonucleic acid | RNA |
Deoxyribonucleic acid | DNA |
Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine | Nitrogenous Bases |
Epistasis | one gene pair influences expression of another gene pair |
Lethal Genes | stop embryonic develpoment |
Recombinant DNA | Bovine growth hormone |
Flavr-Savr tomato | gene altered to lengthen shelf life |
Clone | genetically idential |
Dolly | a cloned sheep |
Mutation | change in the base sequence |