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Making New Cells and Organisms

Students must know...

The structure of the duplicated chromosome.
The events that occur in the cell cycle (G₁, S, G₂, M).
The role of cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) in the regulation of the cell cycle.
Ways in which the normal cell cycle is disrupted to cause cancer, or halted in specialized cells.
The features of mitosis that result in the production of genetically identical daughter cells including: replication, alignment of chromosomes, and separation of chromosomes.
What apoptosis means and why it is important to normal functioning of multicellular organisms.
The difference between asexual and sexual reproduction.
The role of meiosis and fertilization in sexually reproducing organisms.
The importance of homologous chromosomes to meiosis.
How the chromosome number is reduced from diploid to haploid in meiosis.
Three events that occur in meiosis but not mitosis.
The importance of crossing over, independent assortment, and random fertilization to increasing genetic variability.
Terms associated with genetics problems: P, F1, F2, dominant, recessive, homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype, genotype.
How to derive the proper gametes when working a genetics problem.
The difference between an allele and a gene.
How to read a pedigree.
How to use data sets to determine patterns of inheritance.
How the chromosome theory of inheritance connects the physical movement of chromosomes in meiosis to Mendel's laws of inheritance.
The unique pattern of inheritance in sex-linked genes.
How alteration of chromosome number or structurally altered chromosomes can cause genetic disorders.
How inheritance of mitochondrial DNA are exceptions to standard Mendelian inheritance.

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