Blog

Select letter A here for free points.

Growing polypeptides elongate from ribosomes directly into the _______, where they will be folded and processed into functional proteins.

Nondisjunction

Free points if you choose the only possible answer here.

The alleles for type A blood and type B blood are said to be _______ over the allele for type O blood.

 If one parent is heterozygous for type A blood, and the other parent is heterozygous for type B blood, the probability of producing a child with type O blood is

When two or more genes are carried together during crossing over in meiosis, such that one phenotype is usually associated with another (e.g. eye color and wing length in fruit flies), those genes are said to be

Prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) reproduce new cells by

Gregor Mendel examined seven characteristics of pea plants, including flower color. When he crossed pure-breeding purple flowers with pure-breeding white flowers, the first generation of offspring (F1)

Mendel proposed that each parent contributes one copy of a “factor” (gene).  Different copies, or alternate forms of the same gene (e.g. B, b) are called