describe the pattern of inheritance of a trait controlled by a single gene with two alleles, one dominant and one recessive?

Q: Explain the term maternal inheritance? Which characters show this type of inheritance?

A: Genetics is the study of heredity in general and genes in particular. Genetic research is one of…

Q: Representation of pedigree analysis of autosomal dominant traits?

A: Introduction  Pedigree Analysis: this is the new approach to study the inheritance pattern in the…

Q: Define the Beyond Simple InheritancePatterns ?

A: The inheritance patterns help to predict how genes are transmitted from generation to generation.…

Q: A morphological trait is the physical association between two genes because they are on the same…

A: Gregor Mendel has postulated three laws in genetics and he is called as Father of Genetics. Law of…

Q: Describe how traits can exhibit incomplete penetrance and vary in their expressivity.

A: Some features are the product of the interplay of different genes and can also be impacted by their…

Q: Distinguish between autosomal recessive and autosomaldominant inheritance.

A: DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid) is the genetic material that the organism inherits from the parental…

Q: Explain the Multiple-Gene Hypothesis for Quantitative Inheritance ?

A: Inheritance can be defined as the process where one class acquires the properties along with the…

Q: describe the patterns of inheritance of traits showing incomplete dominance, codominance, and…

A: Genetics is the investigation of heredity. Heredity is a natural interaction whereby a parent passes…

Q: Explain how continuous traits, like human height and skin color, are controlled by multiple alleles…

A: Phylogenic trait is something that is controlled by multiple genes like at least three genes. The…

Q: Is it possible for a dominant trait to skip a generation?

A: The first appears which is visibly expressed in organism are known as dominant trait.

Q: What is the gene that goes with a trait called?

A: A gene is the basic physical unit and functional unit of heredity. Theses are made up of DNA. Some…

Q: What is required in the genotype of an individual to show a recessive trait?

A: Genotype  It is defined as the reference to the alleles (variants of the gene) an individual carries…

Q: Define multifactorial trait

A: The phenotype of some traits are controlled by more than one gene, these are known as Polygenic…

Q: If two parents have a dominate trait, can they have a child that has a recessive trait?

A: If two parents have a dominate trait, can they have a child that has a recessive trait?  Ans ) Yes…

Q: Explain how the phenotypes for incompletely dominantand codominant traits differ from…

A: Introduction  Any gene have two alleles pairs viz. Dominant or Recessive. The allele which gets…

Q: Explain the functional relationship and their roles in inheritance of DNA, genes, alleles, and…

A: Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA is a molecule composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around…

Q: Explain the characteristics of polygenic and multifactorial traits.

A: Genetic is the branch of science that deals with genetic material like genome, genes, DNA, and…

Q: How Are Single Traits Inherited?

A: DNA is the genetic material in most living organisms. It is the information hub of the cell that…

Q: Distinguish between the following genetic terms: A. gene and allele. B. Homozygous and heterozygous.…

A: Gene: It is a nucleotide arrangement of DNA   example: ATCGATCG Alleles: Alternate forms of a trait,…

Q: explain how polygenic inheritance and environmental influences combine to produce nearly continuous…

A: "Polygenic inheritance" includes the expression of many characters from different genes due to the…

Q: How are single-gene traits inherited?

A: A phenotype is a unique feature of an organism. Genes and the climate, as well as relationships…

Q: Explain the effect of each gene on a trait is independent of the effects of other genes ?

A: it states that each gene in a pair is distributed independently during the process of gamete…

Q: Distinguish between an autosomal dominant and anautosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

A: Introduction: Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants and concluded the fundamental laws of…

Q: Describe major patterns of inheritance.

A: There are four major patterns of inheritance: Autosomal recessive inheritance, autosomal dominant…

Q: What is the difference between dominant and recessive trait?

A: A gene is the basic physical and functional unit of heredity and is composed of DNA(deoxyribonucleic…

Q: Representation of pedigree analysis of autosomal recessive traits?

A: Step 1 Pedigree is a record of descent over generations in which the number of offspring and…

Q: Differentiate dominant and recessive genes

A: The branch of biology which deals with the study of heredity and evolutions known as the genetics.…

Q: Do you know the genotype of an individual with a recessive traitand/or a dominant trait? Explain…

A: Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinian monk. He worked on garden pea for the genetic experiment and…

Q: Give examples of Strict Dominant-Recessive inheritance, Incomplete Dominance inheritance,…

A: Heredity is defined as the transfer of genetic information from parents to offspring. Genetic…

Q: Distinguish between the genotype and phenotype of a given genetic trait.

A: A genetic trait is the feature of a living being that is regulated by genes.

Q: What reveals units of inheritance and the law of segregation?

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

Q: define pedigrees, Autosomal dominant and recessive, and sex linked inheritance. know how to read…

A: Chart diagram that shows the presence or absence of a phenotypic trait within a family from one…

Q: How can genetic heterogeneity affect inheritance patterns?

A: Inheritance is a mechanism in which traits of the parents transfer into the offspring of the next…

Q: Explain inheritence of one gene?

A: Mendel performs the experiment on the pea plants by cultivating and observing them under different…

Q: Define late-onset genetic trait

A: Genes are the basic structural and functional units of heredity. They are composed of…

Q: Describe why polygenic inheritance is much more important that simple single-gene dominant and…

A: Inheritance pattern in organisms follow mostly Mendelian principles. The three Mendelian principles…

Q: What pattern of inheritance shows the full and separate phenotypes of two alleles in heterozygous…

A: Genes are inherited from parents to offspring. Allele is a form of a gene. Homozygous individuals…

Q: Define heterogeneous trait

A: There are of two kinds of gene hetrozygotes and homozygotes. A comparative phenotype being brought…

Q: What is a trait for which symptoms are not present at birth and manifests themselves later in life?

A: Genetics is the study of inheritance of genes among the generations that deals with heredity and…

Q: Describe how different alleles produce different phenotypes

A: A variable form of a gene is known as an allele. Some genes exist in several distinct versions, all…

Q: Determine Whether One or Two Genes Determine a Trait

A: Genes are the basic biological unit of heredity. They are a segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)…

Q: Give examples of Mendelian traits and of traits with complex inheritance.

A: Mendelian traits are the genetic traits that follow Mendel's laws of inheritance.

Q: In Sex-Limited and Sex-Influenced Inheritance, an Individual’s Gender Influences the Phenotype. How…

A: Genetic is the branch of science that deals with genetic material like genome, genes, DNA, and…

Q: Difference between dominant and recessive?

A: Gregor Johann Mendel is known as father of genetics. He performed experiments on pea plants for…

Q: Does a trait always go together with another trait in one individual even if the autosomal traits…

A: The segment of DNA that can produce a polypeptide is called gene. it is an inherited factor that…

Q: Is it possible for a recessive trait to skip a generation meaning the parents do not display the…

A: The alleles are generally of dominant and recessive type and some other forms like codominant and…

Q: Construct a human pedigree for a dominant and arecessive trait and explain the patterns of…

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Q: Briefly describe what is a meaning of genetic variation.

A: Variation are distinctive changes that takes place in individuals or set / group of individuals . It…

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