Genetics Quiz 🧬
1 What is the term for the protein that helps package DNA into nucleosomes?
It forms an octamer structure...
Histone octamer
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2 What genetic condition results from having three X chromosomes (44 + XXX)?
Also called Triple X syndrome...
Trisomy X
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3 What is the name of the 5-carbon sugar in DNA nucleotides?
It's missing one oxygen compared to RNA's sugar...
Deoxyribose
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4 What is the term for the region where sister chromatids are joined together?
It's crucial for chromosome separation during cell division...
Centromere
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5 What is the term for Mendel's principle that alleles separate during gamete formation?
It's his First Law...
Law of Segregation
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6 What is the term for inheritance where heterozygotes show a phenotype intermediate between both homozygotes?
Think pink flowers from red and white parents...
Incomplete dominance
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7 What is the name of the RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation?
It has an anticodon that matches mRNA codons...
Transfer RNA (tRNA)
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8 What is the term for the complete set of genetic material in an organism?
It's all the DNA including all genes...
Genome
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9 What is the term for the process that creates genetic diversity by exchanging DNA between homologous chromosomes?
It occurs during prophase I of meiosis...
Crossing over
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10 What is the term for Mendel's principle that alleles for different traits are distributed independently?
It's his Second Law...
Law of Independent Assortment
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