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Heredity and Genetics

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Transcription and Translation

DNA Transcription & Protein Assembly

Genetics 101 Part 1:
What are genes?

Gene mutations that can lead to cancer

Heredity and Cancer

DNA in Action

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1. True or false: Cancer has a hereditary component

True

False

2. High blood pressure and high cholesterol could most likely lead to:

Allergies

Heart disease

Sjogrens disease

Lupus

3. A functioning tumor suppressor gene acts to:

Stop cancerous cells from progressing or kill cells that are mutated

Kill all foreign cells

Increase cancer metastasis

Invite carcinogens into the body

4. Heredity is:

The process by which parents pass characteristics or traits on to their children.

Seen in plants

People and other organisms where there are parents and offspring.

A way that some diseases and disorders are passed from parents to offspring.

All of the above

5. This scientist is sometimes nicknamed the father of genetics

Charles Darwin

Francis Crick

Gregor Mendel

Albert Einstein

6. The passing of traits from parent to offspring is called

Heredity

Hand-me-downs

Metabolism

DNA replication

7. Which of the following genotypes is considered to be heterozygous?

None of the above

8. Smoking can potentially cause which of the following diseases

Asthma

COPD

Lung cancer

All of the above

9. What carries the genetic instructions for the development of an organism?

RNA

DNA

mRNA

Enzymes

10. Which of these would represent a homozygous genotype

If you are human, leave this field blank.

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