Mitosis
What is the purpose of mitosis?
Where and when does mitosis occur?
How are the parent cell and the daughter cells related in mitosis?
What are the stages and key features of stages of mitosis?
Mutations
What is a mutation?
What type of mutations can occur?
Cancer
What are the changes to the nucleotide sequence for each type of mutation?
What are some risk factors for cancer?
What is the biomolecular explanation for cancer?
Why does the incidence of cancer increase with age?
Stem Cells
What are the main properties of stem cells?
Meiosis
What is the difference between a human embryonic stem cell and an adult stem cell?
What is the purpose of meiosis?
How are the daughter cells related to the parent cell in meiosis?
How does meiosis produce genetic variation?
Why is it important that the number of chromosomes is reduced during meiosis?
What are the stages and key features of stages of meiosis?
How are mitosis and meiosis similar? Different?
Patterns of inheritance
How many chromosomes does each offspring receive from its parent?
How are dominant and recessive alleles related?
What is codominance?
What is incomplete dominance?
What are sex-linked traits?
Punnett Squares
How do you draw Punnett squares to determine the ratio of offspring from crosses involving any of the above patterns?
Pedigrees
Given a pedigree can you determine the pattern of inheritance?