LIFE 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Heredity, Meiosis, Chromosome
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*living organisms are distinguished by their ability to reproduce with their own kind. The transmission of traits from one generation to the next. The differences in appearance that offspring show from parents and siblings. *offspring acquire genes from parents by inheriting chromosomes. *children do not inherit particular physical traits from their parents. Each gene has a specific location called a locus on a certain chromosome. *one set of chromosomes is inherited from each parent. One parent produces genetically identical offspring by mitosis. A group of genetically identical individuals from the same parent. Two parents give rise to offspring that have unique combinations of genes inherited from the two parents. An ordered display of the pairs of chromosomes from a cell. *chromosomes in a homologous pair are the same length and carry genes controlling the same inherited characters. The 22 pairs of chromosomes that do not determine sex. *each pair of homologous chromosomes includes one chromosome from each parent.
