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It is the transmission of genetic materials or characteristics from parents to offspring.
Genetic
Heredity
Growth
Development
Which of the following is true about genetics?
It deals with heredity and the factors affecting transmission
It attempts to describe similarities and differences
It also explain the characteristics transmitted from parents to offsprings.
All of the above
Study of genetics started with the work of Gregor Johan Mendel.
True
False
He is known as the father of modern genetics.
Carl Corens
Gregor Mendel
Francis Crick
Hugo deVries
The term genetics was coined by
William Bateson
Gregor Mendel
Carl Corens
Francis Crick
Homozygous is a condition in which both the members of an allelic pair is identical.
True
False
A condition in which the members of an allelic pair in the homologous chromosome are not identical.
Homozygous
Hemizygous
Heterozygous
Phenotype represents...
your physical traits
your genetic make up
your mRNA
your tRNA
What is the result of transcription?
The synthesis of RNA from protein
The synthesis of protein from RNA
The synthesis of protein from DNA
The synthesis of RNA from DNA
The central dogma of molecular biology is an explanation of the the flow of genetic information within a biological system.
True
False
In DNA replication, the double helix is unwind and each strand acts as a template for the next strand
True
False
It is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.
Transcription
Replication
Translation
The process by which the information contained in a section of DNA is replicated in the form of a newly assembled piece of mRNA.
Transcription
Translation
Replication
In DNA replication, helicase unwind the parental double helix.
True
False
At transcription stop site, polymerase releases completed RNA and dissociates from DNA.
True
False
The process by which mRNA directs prothein synthesis with the assistance of tRNA.
Transcription
Replication
Translation
The genetic code is a set of three nucleotide sets called codons.
True
False
Synthesis allows for the introduction of non natural amino acids into polypeptide chain.
Chemical synthesis
Translation
Transcription
Replication
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