Genes Unit Vocabulary

Recessive Allele

• To make changes or improvements to something based on new information or data.

• The movement of an object around another object

• An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present.

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Meiosis

• Produces two genetically identical “daughter” cells from a single “parent” cell,

• Fundamental process for life.

• The process that occurs in the formation of sex cells (sperm and egg) by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half.

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Phenotype

• Charmed

• An organism’s physical appearance, or visible traits.

• An organism’s genetic makeup, or allele combinations.

• Genie in a bottle

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Cell Cycle

• An unforeseen chain of events caused by a disturbance in a system.

• Dora

• A setting on the washing machine.

• The series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells.

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Messenger RNA

• Carries out a broad range of functions, from translating genetic information into the molecular machines and structures of the cell to regulating the activity of genes during development, cellular differentiation, and changing environments.

• Type of RNA that carries copies of instructions for the assembly of amino acids into proteins from DNA to ribosomes in the cytoplasm.

• Nucleic acid present in all living cells that has structural similarities to DNA

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Protein Synthesis

• The process by which amino acids link together to form proteins.

• Goes good in a Shake!

• Large organic molecule made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes sulfur.

• The production of chemical compounds by reaction from simpler materials.

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Heredity

• Scooby Doo Show!

• Traits and Genes?

• Something your get from your Mother

• The passing of traits from parents to offspring.

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Sequence

• Using the four-color chemistry, each of the four bases has a unique emission, and after each round, the machine records which base was added

• To determine the order of nucleotides in small targeted genomic regions or entire genomes

• A series of connected events that happen in a specific order.

• The order of things!

Pedigree

• My dog loves it!

• A tool that geneticists use to map out the inheritance of traits

• One of the different shapes of the moon as seen from Earth.

• The part of a shadow surrounding the darkest part.

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Chromatid

• A principle that describes the relationship between the temperature and volume of a gas at constant pressure

• The structure formed when a chromosome divides during meiosis.

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• A one- or two-letter abbreviation for an element.

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