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DNA and Genetics Bill Nye Video questions

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1. Who was Mendel? What did he discover? How did he discover this?
2. What are genetic traits called that show up in certain generations?
3. What is heredity?
4. What is a recessive gene what is a dominate gene?
5. Who was Thomas Hunt Morgan? What did he do?
6. Why are fruit flies used in so many experiments?
7. What do X-Rays do to chromosomes?
8. Who discovered the one gene-one enzyme process?
9. Why are some people lactose intolerant?
10. Who was Barbra McClintock? What did she discover?
11. What is DNA? What are the 4 compositions of DNA?
12. What does DNA look like?
13. What did Watson and Crick discover?
14. What is messenger RNA?
15. What do many scientists think messenger RNA and other RNA are decedents of?
16. How many amino acids are involved in production of proteins?
17. Who was Verenor Arbour? What did he discover?
18. What did Alec Jefferys discover?
19. What are some surprises that came up while conducting experiments on genes?
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