BI 101 Key Concepts for Cell Divisions and Genetics
Chapters 7 & 8, Summer 2008  

ABO blook type inheritance

Allele

autosomes  

cell cycle 

centromere 

chromatid

chromatin

chromosomes

codominance

Cystic fibrosis

Diploid (2n)

dominant vs. recessive alleles

Down Syndrome

fertilization

gene

gene pairs

genotype  

gonads

Gregor Mendel

Haploid (n)

hemoglobin

Hermaphrodites

heterozygous

homologous chromosomes (=homologues)

homozygous

Huntington disease

incomplete dominance

independent assortment

interphase

karyotype  

Klinefelters syndrome

malaria

meiosis & its unique events

mitosis & its various functions for the individual

metastasis

multiple alleles

nondisjunction

pedigree chart

phenotype  

phenylalinine

PKU

polygenic inheritance

polyploidy  

Punnett square

recombination

segregation

sex (at the cellular level this is reduced to meiosis and fertilization)

sex chromosomes

Sex determination in humans vs. alligators

sickle cell disease

sry gene

synapsis

Trisomy 21

Turner Syndrome

Zygote

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