Milkmaids who had cowpox where immune to what disease ?
smallpox
Smallpox
first vaccine
Genes can?
change
Humans have how many pairs of chromosomes?
23
Humans have how many total chromosomes?
46
Hairless fingers are what type of trait?
recessive/inherited
The percent of DNA programmed to build cells.
3%
The percent of DNA that is noncoding.
97%
Noncoding DNA was first thought to be what?
junk
Workhorses in your body
mitochondria
Daughter cell comes from what?
parent cell
What event caused problems in March 1989?
increased sunspot activity
antigenic drift
mutation of DNA in a virus
Advantage to one species
disadvantage to another species
How many genes does a human have?
about 25, 000
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was from?
France
Lamarck's theory dealt with
inherited acquired traits
What is inherited acquired traits?
traits acquired by the parents during their lifetime would be passed to their offspring
Was Lamarck's theory true?
No
Who proved it wrong?
Darwin
Was Lamarck the author of his theory?
No
Barbara McClintock's expertise was in?
genetics
What are nomadic mutations of genes that relocate to certain parts of a genome and cause mutation to aid in survival and evolution.
"jumping genes"
transposons
another name for "jumping genes"
What causes "jumping genes" to be hyper?
STRESS
"genome liked to move the _______around"
furniture
E. coli bacteria
needed for digestion
"Hypermutation"
mutations on steroids
Weismann Barrier named after
August Weismann
Weismann Barrier
germ plasma
germ plasma/Weismann Barrier
body cells either germ/ somatic
Cancer cells develop in
somatic cells
Are two brains identical?
NO
Why are two brains not the same?
genetic jumping causes variety and individuality
What system fights for our health?
immune system
Once you have antibodies do you every lose them?
NO
Why is breastfeeding important?
to help protect the newborn by building antibodies
Jumping genes resemble what?
Mother Nature's on the fly genetic engineering
All living things want to
survive and reproduce
bacteria is alive because it can
metabolize food and reproduce on their own
Viruses are not alive because they cannot
metabolize food and reproduce on their own
50%
amount of human DNA thought to be a retrovirus
Luis Villarreal wrote a book about
virus role in evolution
How did viruses help with human evolution?
causing mutations to happen more often and quicker through exposure to retroviruses
What is the title of this chapter?
Jump Into The Gene Pool
