What is a gene?
What is a gene? Yourgenome.org stimulus

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Joshua Baissari
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
a small section of DNA
a small section of a chromosome
a small section of a base
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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A gene usually contains
health, wealth and stealth
hydrogen bonds and amino acids
instructions for a specific molecule, usually a protein
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which answer below does this description belong to?
Contains the information required to build specific proteins needed in an organism.
Chromosome
DNA
Genes
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Like flavours, genes come in different forms called
Flavour flaves
Alleles
Chromatids
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Alleles of particular genes come in pairs, one on each chromosome
(we have 23 pairs of chromosomes)
TRUE
FALSE
Not 100% true
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If the alleles of a particular gene are the same, the organism is described as homozygous for that gene.
False
TRUE
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If the alleles of a particular gene are different the organism is described as homozygous for that gene.
HETEROzygous is TRUE
HOMOzygous is TRUE
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