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Explain pure breeding with an example.

Important Questions on Inheritance

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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Explain the difference between DNA and RNA.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Explain the structure of a chromosome.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein

Define the following:

Autosome 

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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
What is gene ?
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
The type of gene, which in the presence of a contrasting allele is expressed physically is dominant or recessive? (Answer in one word.)
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Explain how genes control the characteristics.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
What are genes? How do they do their work in a cell?
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Write the specific features of genetic codon AUG.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Define the following: Linkage
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
The number of homologous chromosomes in each normal human cell (write in numerals).
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
When both the alleles are identical, they are said to be homozygous.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
What are 'true-breeding lines' that are used to study the inheritance pattern of traits in plants?
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
How can you say that there is a complete parallelism between the behaviour of Mendelian factors and chromosomes ?
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
The observable traits of an organism are its
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
The giant chromosomes of Drosophila are found in:
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Differentiate between the following
Dominance and Recessive.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Clarify the term 'non-disjunction' giving a suitable example to substantiate the same.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
Mention the role of codons AUG and UGA during protein synthesis.
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein
The genetic makeup of an organism is a phenotype. 
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Biology>Genetics>Inheritance>Chromosomes, Genes and Protein

Distinguish between chromatin and chromosome.