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Recombinant Dna Technology
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health-sciences
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1. Scientific explanation of how life changes over time - science is based off of evidence - science is obtained with observation and testing - science is always open to question
Cuvier
Heterozygote Advantage
Evolution
Frequency dependent selection
2. Capable of asexual reproduction; most are not
Natural selection does not make perfect individuals
Artificial selection(breeding)
Most organisms are...
Intrasexual selection
3. Forms that show how an organisms anatomy change over time
Most organisms are...
Transitional forms
Molecular similarity
Biogeography
4. Can make large quantities of product; infection free; less expensive than a natural source
Advantages of Recom. DNA tech
Most organisms are...
Charles Darwin
Biogeography
5. An accumulation of genetic charges over a certain amount of time
Disruptive selection
Recombinant DNA technology
Descent with Modification
Hutton
6. Humans selecting certain traits in domestic organisms
Artificial selection(breeding)
Ericson Method
Molecular similarity
DNA fingerprinting
7. The movement of genes between two populations e.g. migration - immigration
Gene flow
Mate choice/non - random mating
DNA fingerprinting
Disruptive selection
8. Way more offspring are produced than by sexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction
Frequency dependent selection
Hutton
Lamarck
9. Number of offspring in the next generation; your contribution to the gene pool
Totipotent stem cells
Sexual dimrphism
Microevolution
Reproductive fitness
10. Sexual partners chosen based on some characteristics
Intersexual selection
Advantages of Recom. DNA tech
Mate choice/non - random mating
Modes of Selection
11. A circular piece of DNA in bacteria where the gene is placed in Recom. DNA technology
Descent with Modification
Linnaeus
Hutton
plasmid
12. Heterozygous chromosomes have an affect on an individuals genetics/alleles
Sexual selection
Heterozygote Advantage
Pluripotent stem cells
Mechanisms of Microevolution
13. A group of interbreeding organisms living in the same place at the same time
Population
Charles Darwin
Germinal choice
Molecular similarity
14. Invented the binomial method(naming of species); also believed that life was fixed
Disruptive selection
Stabilizing
Sexual reproduction
Linnaeus
15. Direct competition for mates with the same sex
Intrasexual selection
Restriction enzymes
Heterozygote Advantage
Modes of Selection
16. Change in alleles due to random chance
Stem cells
Genetic drift
Heterozygote Advantage
'Pharm' animals
17. Recessive traits persistent to a certain population; recessive alleles hide from selection
Founder effect
Descent with Modification2
Diploiding
Disruptive selection
18. Mutation - Natural selection - Genetic drift - Bottleneck effect - Founder effect - Gene flow - and Mate choice/non - random mating
Phenotypic variation
Preimplantation Genetic diagnosis (PGD)
Mechanisms of Microevolution
Homology
19. Taking good genes to replace bad genes; almost never works; has unintended side effects; sometimes just doesn't work; protein becomes degraded - etc
Adaptation
Gene Therapy
Theraputic cloning
Restriction enzymes
20. Related organisms have similar development plans
Lamarck
Neutral Variation
Embryology
Germinal choice
21. Came up with the term Uniformitarianism(mechanisms for change in the past still occur today; believed at first there was no evolution
Lyell
Heterozygote Advantage
Founder effect
Transitional forms
22. Selects for the extremes and against the middle
Descent with Modification
Diploiding
Asexual reproduction
Disruptive selection
23. Believed that change was gradual;Gradualism(the mechanisms of the world - then - are the same today)
Hutton
Gene Therapy
Embryology
Reproductive cloning
24. Cells that can become any cell in the body; found in the embryo
Restriction enzymes
DNA fingerprinting
Totipotent stem cells
Population
25. The screening of embryos for genetic disorders; done in In Vitro fertilization(fertilization in a petri dish); PGD removes one cell from the embryo and screens it genetically; embryos with disorders are discarded - ones without are kept and implanted
Preimplantation Genetic diagnosis (PGD)
Natural selection does not make perfect individuals
Transitional forms
Heterozygote Advantage
26. Cells that can turn into other cells
Evolution
Stem cells
Theory
Gene Therapy
27. The change in a populations genetics
Stabilizing
Frequency dependent selection
Descent with Modification2
Microevolution
28. The idea that characteristics can enhance an organisms survival
Modes of Selection
Advantages of Recom. DNA tech
Adaptation
Hutton
29. When a population becomes smaller and a few individuals survive the event
Charles Darwin
Evolution
Sexual dimrphism
Bottleneck effect
30. Differences in appearances between the sexes
Founder effect
Sexual dimrphism
Stabilizing
Molecular similarity
31. Directional selection - Disruptive selection - Stabalizing
Pluripotent stem cells
Population
plasmid
Modes of Selection
32. All species on earth are fixed; no changes - no new species - no extinction
Lamarck
Gene flow
Molecular similarity
Historical Context of evolution
33. A subset of a population colonizes a new area
Gene flow
Founder effect
Natural selection
Transitional forms
34. Set sail on the HMS Beagle to travel the islands and areas for signs of evolution; First book written in 1839 'voyage of the Beagle'; Second book published in 1859 'The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection
Directional selection
Theraputic cloning
Heterozygote Advantage
Charles Darwin
35. Distribution of organisms related to evolution; different organisms play the same roles on different continents; island organisms resemble organisms on nearby mainland
Biogeography
Gel Electrophoresis
Frequency dependent selection
Theory
36. Selection fro or against environment; leads to evolution only if variation has genetic components
Phenotypic variation
Reproductive fitness
Cuvier
Advantages of Recom. DNA tech
37. 1.edits existing variation by using the material it has(variation that exists in population/ no new traits created by natural selection) 2. Has historical constraints(change in old structures) 3. Adaptations are compromises (good for one thing - bad
plasmid
Stabilizing
Natural selection does not make perfect individuals
Homology
38. Sometimes different species share common ancestors
DNA fingerprinting
Homology
Descent with Modification2
Intrasexual selection
39. Pharmaceutical animals; cloned animals used ot produce products for humans
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40. Theory of a stable - nonevolving population in which frequency of alleles do not change; only occurs in large - isolated populations with random mating - and no natural selection or mutations
Sexual selection
Restriction enzymes
Descent with Modification2
Hardy- Weinberg equilibrium
41. Cells that can become only a few different types of cells; mostly adult stem cells; found in bone marrow - the skin epidermis - etc; can sometimes be turned into Totipotent stem cells
Disruptive selection
Ericson Method
Sexual selection
Pluripotent stem cells
42. Takes the gene from a needed product - puts it into another organism (usually bacteria) and it will make duplicates of the product
Hardy- Weinberg equilibrium
Charles Darwin
Linnaeus
Recombinant DNA technology
43. Traits that are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous; there is no selection
Sexual reproduction
Neutral Variation
Pluripotent stem cells
Advantages of Recom. DNA tech
44. Subset of natural selection that increases the likelihood of mating specifically
Lyell
Disruptive selection
'Pharm' animals
Sexual selection
45. Form of reproduction more used because it creates Variation
Cuvier
Mutation
Preimplantation Genetic diagnosis (PGD)
Sexual reproduction
46. First to publish mechanisms for evolution; Had 2 idea: Use and disuse - use it more gets bigger; less it disappears - Inheritance of acquired characteristics - pass on changes to offspring
Lamarck
Cuvier
Mechanisms of Microevolution
Descent with Modification2
47. Another method designed to sort female sperm form male sperm; goes by size of sperm; females are bigger than male sperm
Preimplantation Genetic diagnosis (PGD)
Asexual reproduction
Micro - sort
Totipotent stem cells
48. Results in a tissue or an organ that is identical to the DNA donor
Lyell
Theraputic cloning
Population
Natural selection
49. Choosing the sperm/egg/embryo that will produce the desired child depending on DNA(genes)
Heterozygote Advantage
Germinal choice
Mechanisms of Microevolution
Lamarck
50. Comparing an unknown sample of DNA to a known sample by using Gel Electrophoresis; used in crime scenes - paternity tests - and remains identification
Modes of Selection
Germinal choice
Homology
DNA fingerprinting