Define Mitochondrial Mutations- HumanGenetic Disorders ?

Q: Please explain mitochondrial DNA inheritance . How is it inherited ? Why is it predisposed to…

A: The cell contains the nucleus, which includes the cell's genetic material called nucleic acid. The…

Q: What is mean by cytoplasmic inheritance?

A: In eukaryotic cells, a large organelle known as the nucleus is found. It is a double membrane-bound…

Q: How does mitochondrial inheritance work?

A: Cell division is a process of a parent cell replicating it chromosomal content and dividing itself…

Q: Explain about the pleiotropic gene.

A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present in the DNA. It codes for the synthesis of an RNA or…

Q: Describe some syndromes that result from chromosomal nondisjunction?

A: Nondisjunction of chromosome: - During cell division, it is the failure of separation of homologous…

Q: Explain the Pedigrees for Autosomal Disorders ?

A: An autosome is defined as any of the numbered chromosomes, which is not a type of sex chromosome.…

Q: Explain the features of Y-chromosome profiles ?

A: Introduction  Chromosomes are classified into two types: Autosomes and Allosomes/Sex chromosomes.…

Q: a. Explain the difference between maternal inheritanceof organelle DNAs and maternal effect…

A: There are two types of sex chromosomes X and Y chromosomes. The autosomes are the same in both male…

Q: What is Down's syndrome? Give its symptoms and cause. Why is it that the chances of having a child…

A: Human genetic disorders are caused by the absence, excess, or abnormal arrangement of one or more…

Q: What is mitochondrial inheritance?

A: Mitochondria are a type of an organelle present in a cell. It is primarily responsible for the…

Q: Jacob and Patau Syndromes List the similarities and differences between these two syndromes. Which…

A: Jacob syndrome: Also known as XYY syndome/ XYY karyotype/ YY syndrome Patau syndrome:  Also known as…

Q: How is mitochondrial DNA transmitted to children?

A: What is mitochondrial DNA ? Mitochondrial DNA is the small circular chromosome found inside the…

Q: Why is autosomal Monosomy lethal?

A: Most living species have DNA as their genetic material. It is the cell's information centre,…

Q: Explain the cause of monogenic diseases ?

A: Genes are the functional unit of heredity. It contains information that is transferred from one…

Q: Explain down's syndrome?

A: The process of gamete formation involves meiotic division that results in cutting down the…

Q: 1a) Explain one autosomal pattern of Mendelian inheritance. 1b) Describe one example of a disorder…

A: 1 a) Mendelian inheritance  Mendelian inheritance is defined as the inheritance pattern, which…

Q: Which of the following genetic diseases is/are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait: sickle cell…

A: Introduction: Huntington's disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown…

Q: Explain the reasons chromosomes carry Mendel’s hereditary units?

A: Genetics is the branch of biology which deals with genes, heredity, and genome in the organism.…

Q: Why the allele for Huntington disease is dominant?

A: Step 1 Huntington disease is an inherited disorder that causes the death of brain cells by the…

Q: how Mitochondrial Gene Expression HasUnusual Features?

A: Mitochondria and chloroplast are the two cell organelles that contain their own genome.…

Q: Explain mendelian disorders?

A: Mendelian inheritance types are autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked dominant and…

Q: Can mitochondrial DNA be inherited from father?

A: The genome represents the genetic material in an organism having a set of chromosomes which is…

Q: Explain the concept of mendal's law of inheritence?

A: Gregor Mendel conducted experiments on pea plant (Pisum sativum) demonstrating the inheritance of…

Q: Differences between mitochondrial inheritance and genetic maternal effect?

A: Answer- Mitochondrial inheritance is a type of inheritance of characters coded by mitochondrial…

Q: What is genetic disorders? Explain by giving an example.

A: Genetics is described as the branch of biology that focuses on the study of genes, their…

Q: What are twins? Genetically, what are the two types of twins that can occur?

A: Introduction In this question we have to define twins and have to discuss about the types of twins,…

Q: Define Mitochondrial Mutations- Human Genetic Disorders ?

A: The cell is the fundamental unit of life. A tissue is a collection of cells that work together to…

Q: Explain why the incidence of Down syndrome increases with maternal age.

A: Introduction Down syndrome is a genetic condition produced by an additional whole or partial copy of…

Q: What is the most common mitochondrial disease?

A: Mitochondria are cell organelles within eukaryotic cells, which produce adenosine triphosphate…

Q: How does a positive ASO test for sickle-cell anemia determine that an individual is homozygous…

A: Sickle cell anemia:                  Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disorder of red blood cells. In…

Q: Explain why disease alleles for cystic fibrosis (CF)are recessive to the normal alleles (CF+), yet…

A: Cystic fibrosis is caused by defects in a membrane-bound protein called cystic fibrosis…

Q: How Mutations at the Huntington disease locusare caused?

A: Huntington disease is an inherited rare disease that progressively degenerates the nerve cells…

Q: Which of the following genetic diseases is/are inherited as an X-linked recessive trait: hemophilia…

A: Introduction The passing on of traits from parents to their offspring is known as heredity, also…

Q: Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, is an extremely rare, progressive genetic disorder that causes children…

A: Mutations in the LMNA gene cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Here, we have to select the…

Q: Explain why Huntington disease is caused by a dominant allele

A: Alleles refer to two or more variant form of a gene. Genes are the basic structural and functional…

Q: Recognize mitochondrial diseases in human pedigrees.

A: Mitochondria are the “energy factory” of our body. Several thousand mitochondria are in nearly every…

Q: explain Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Mitochondriaand Chloroplasts

A: Mendelian inheritance is applicable only in case of sexual reproduction. In case of asexual…

Q: What are the causes of Mendels success?

A: Gregor Johann Mendel was the person to carry out the  first scientific study  which lead to the…

Q: Describe the phenotype of individuals who inherit one copy of the Hbs allele and one copy of the HbA…

A: Sickle cell Anaemia is a genetic disorder in which glutamic acid in position 6 of the β chain of…

Q: What is the Characteristic pedigree for mitochondrial disease?

A: The genes located on the nuclear chromosomes obey the Mendelian law of inheritance. In the human…

Q: Explain the extranuclear inheritance ?

A: Non-mendelian inheritance is a type of inheritance in which a trait was transmitted from parent to…

Q: Explain the effect of heteroplasmy on the manifestationof mitochondrial diseases.

A: When in a cell there is more than one type of organellar genome i.e. mitochondrial DNA or plastid…

Q: What is maternal inheritance in genetics?

A: Inheritance is the transmission of genetic traits from one generation to next. DNA is the genetic…

Q: Do females pass on mitochondrial DNA?

A: The DNA consists of genes that are the functional and physical unit of inheritance. There are some…

Q: Explain the term pleiotropy.

A: Genes are the basic structural and functional unit of heredity. They carry coded genetic information…

Q: identify two main themes underlying the phenomena of chromosomal changes?

A: Chromosome is a compact structure of a DNA molecule wrapped around some proteins. It is generally…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.