2. Jeopardy Genes and Chromosomes Basics 100 200 300 400 500 1000 500 1000

3. Answer: The genetic material that makes up genes and chromosomes.

4. Question: What is DNA?

5. Answer: These are the different versions that genes may have.

6. Question: What are alleles?

7. Answer: Describes the condition when an organism has identical versions of a gene.

8. Question: What is homozygous?

9. Answer: The version of the gene that is always seen (or expressed) when an organism is heterozygous for a particular trait.

10. Question: What is dominant?

11. Answer: A random change or mistake in a gene or chromosome.

12. Question: What is a mutation?

13. Answer: The number of chromosomes found in human cells having the full complement of genetic material.

14. Question: What is 46 chromosomes (or 23 pairs)?

15. Answer: Part of the cell where chromosomes are usually found.

16. Question: What is the nucleus?

17. Answer: Type of reproduction, such as budding, in which new organisms are produced from a single parent organism.

18. Question: What is asexual reproduction?

19. Answer: Family record showing the inheritance of a trait over several generations.

20. Question: What is a pedigree?

21. Answer: Shows the linear sequence of genes on a chromosome.

22. Question: What is a chromosome map?

23. Answer: Genotype of males.

24. Question: What is XY?

25. Answer: U.S. government funded project having the aim of identifying the approximately 100,000 genes in the human DNA.

26. Question: What is the Human Genome Project?