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Objective: I can describe how genetic information and inherited structural traits are passed from parent to offspring.
Directions:
2. Click onto the Tour of the Basics link on my web page or go to http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/ . Explore this
activity to find the answers to the questions below.
Questions:
1. What is DNA?
Is the information found in the nucleus of a cell that helps an organism to grow.
DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
3. What is the four-letter DNA alphabet and what are the special rules by which the alphabet pieces bond together?
1. What is a gene?
They are the ones who control the creation of proteins for our bodies
Hemoglobin molecule
8. What is a chromosome?
11. How many different kinds of proteins does one cell contain? ____Thousands___________________
12. Why do scientists use computer programs to model protein structure and function?
Because in real world even if you use a microscope you cant see the proteins
because each baby have a unique combination of chromosomes even if some are from the mother and some from the father but
they always be some that are completely different.
16. In humans, how many chromosomes does each parent pass on to their offspring? __23_______
17. Does the second baby in the What is Heredity? animation inherit the exact same chromosomes at the first? Do both babies
have a complete set of chromosomes?
The Sun: the exposure to the sun may change the hair color of the baby.
21. Briefly explain how the Hitchhikers Thumb trait is determined using the following words: allele, dominant, recessive,
homozygous, and heterozygous. You may draw punnett squares and pictures if you wish.
Homozygous describe someone who has the same allele trait but the heterozygous describes someone who has two completely
different alleles. The Hitchhikers Thumb has two alleles H and h. The H allele is called dominant and the h allele is called
recessive.