Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye: Genetics



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Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye: Genetics

Watch the movie closely and answer the following questions as completely as possible as you go in longer phrases to short sentences.

1. What do we inherit from our parents when we are conceived?

2. Who is the Augustinian monk most famous for his pea plant testing, also referred to as the “Father of Genetics”?

3. Why did Mendel choose pea plants?

4. What were the two biological phenomena Mendel observed?

5. What did Mendel say governed heredity?

6. What are Mendel’s “factors” called today?

7. Name some of the characteristics that can be passed to offspring.

8. What tiny organism do scientists like to use for genetic research today?

9. What makes those organisms from #8 good for genetic research?

10. What did the second generation of Morgan’s flies show?

11. What are two diseases linked to the X chromosome?

12. Beadle & Tatum chose what common organism to experiment with?

13. Why did the organism from #12 make a good research specimen?

14. What is one other function of genes besides passing hereditary information?

15. The theory devised by Beadle & Tatum states One gene-One ________.

16. Barbara McClintock was responsible for what findings?

17. Why were her findings rejected in the scientific community?

18. How is it possible for genes to “jump”? What are these jumping genes called?

19. What are bacteriophages made of?

20. What part of the bacteriophage carries the genetic information? Why is this significant?

21. What is the “blueprint of life”?

22. What are some ways that genes are used today in medicine? (Use your brain; this is not a movie question but rather a thinking question!)

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