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CHD Chapter 2 Question and answers verified to pass 2024 Phenotypes - correct answer observational characteristics Genotypes - correct answer complex blend of genetic information that determines our species and influences all our unique characteristics Gene - correct answer a segment o...

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CHD Chapter 2
Phenotypes - correct answer ✔observational characteristics


Genotypes - correct answer ✔complex blend of genetic information that
determines our species and influences all our unique characteristics


Gene - correct answer ✔a segment of DNA along the length of the
chromosome


Protein-coding Genes - correct answer ✔directly affect our body's
characteristics


Regulator Genes - correct answer ✔modify the instructions given by protein-
coding genes


Gametes - correct answer ✔sex cells; the sperm and ovum, formed through
meiosis


Meiosis - correct answer ✔halves the number of chromosomes normally
present in the body cells


Zygote - correct answer ✔the cell formed when sperm and ovum unite at
conception


Autosomes - correct answer ✔22 of the 23 pairs of chromosomes; matching
pairs (not sex chromosomes)

, Sex Chromosomes - correct answer ✔the 23rd pair of chromosomes
(females:XX, males:XY)


Fraternal/Dizygotic Twins - correct answer ✔the most common type of
multiple offspring, resulting from the release and fertilization of two ova


Identical/Monozygotic Twins - correct answer ✔when one zygote duplicates
and separates into two clusters of cells which develops into two individuals;
they have the same genetic makeup


Allele - correct answer ✔each form of a gene


Homozygous - correct answer ✔when the alleles from both parents are alike;
the child will display the inherited trait


Heterozygous - correct answer ✔when the alleles from both parents are
different


Dominant-recessive inheritance - correct answer ✔only one allele affects the
child's characteristics, or the dominant allele, the other is the recessive allele


Carriers - correct answer ✔heterozygous individuals with just one recessive
allele can pass that trait to their children (they are carriers of that trait)


Incomplete dominance - correct answer ✔a pattern of inheritance in which
both alleles are expressed in the phenotype, resulting in a combined trait, or
one that is intermediate between the two

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