The Understanding of Genetics (AQA GCSE Biology): Flashcards
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Mendel's training subjects
Mendel's training subjects
Mathematics & natural history
Location of Mendel's experiments
Location of Mendel's experiments
Monastery gardens
Organism in Mendel's experiments
Organism in Mendel's experiments
Pea plants
Pea traits Mendel studied
Pea traits Mendel studied
Smooth, wrinkled, green, yellow
Mendel's term for genes
Mendel's term for genes
Hereditary units
Modern name for hereditary units
Modern name for hereditary units
Genes
Hereditary units inherited per parent
Hereditary units inherited per parent
One
Do hereditary units blend?
Do hereditary units blend?
No, passed on intact
Two types of hereditary units
Two types of hereditary units
Dominant & recessive
Why wasn't Mendel recognised in lifetime?
Why wasn't Mendel recognised in lifetime?
Genes & chromosomes not understood yet
Scientists' observation late 1800s
Scientists' observation late 1800s
Chromosomes during cell division
Location of genes
Location of genes
On chromosomes
Year DNA structure discovered
Year DNA structure discovered
1953
Discoverers of DNA structure
Discoverers of DNA structure
James Watson & Francis Crick