Q: How can epistasis explain incomplete penetrance?
A: Penetrance in genetic terms refers to the ratio of individuals that carry a specific allele of a…
Q: What is Extrachromosomal inheritance?
A: Inheritance is the process by which this genetic information present in the genes is passed on from…
Q: What is the example of maternal inheritance?
A: Maternal inheritance is a form of inheritance where the traits of the offspring are maternal in…
Q: Explain the term of incomplete dominance?
A: Inheritance patterns are of different type’s Mendelian inheritance, incomplete dominance,…
Q: What is sex linked inheritance and why is the pattern of inheritance different for males vs females?
A: Sex linked inheritance is the sex-specific pattern of inheritance and presentation when a particular…
Q: Can this trait be passed to offspring?
A: The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the hereditary unit of an organism. It consists of purines and…
Q: Why are newborns with an abnormal sex chromosome number more likely to survive than those with an…
A: Humans have a total number of 46 chromosomes that is 23 pairs of chromosomes in which 22 of them are…
Q: What is incomplete dominance?
A: The genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, genetic variation and…
Q: Will couples be able to select embryos with certain genes encoding desirable traits for height,…
A: Reproduction is the phenomenon of producing offspring from the parent. The reproduction can be…
Q: If a genetic male failed to produce MIS during fetal life, what would the result be?
A: The Müllerian-inhibiting substance (MIS) is a protein that is secreted from the testes, which leads…
Q: what are the genotypes of the offspring?
A: Genetics is a branch of biology that tells about genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living…
Q: What is complete dominance?
A: Complete dominance: usually in maximum cases the diploid organisms carry 2 alleles of a gene. When…
Q: What causes incomplete dominance?
A: A gene is the physical and functional unit of heredity. The alternate forms of gene are referred to…
Q: What is the relationship between non-disjunction, changes in chromosome number and miscarriage? Why…
A: Chromosome abnormalities are of 2 types viz. numerical, where an individual has abnormal number of…
Q: by what age a person with trisomy 16 can survive?
A: due to nondisjunction of chromosomes in maternal meiosis I stage, there are high chances of more…
Q: What are the effects of aneuploidy?
A: Aneuploidy refers to losses or gains of individual chromosomes from the normal set of chromosomes.…
Q: What would be the genotype of the P Generation?
A: Introduction: Genetics is a branch of biology that deals with the understanding of genes, variation…
Q: Explain why Down syndrome is more common in infants born to women older than 35 years of age?
A: A genetic disorder characterized by abnormal cell division in child resulting in extra (whole or…
Q: What is an example of Extrachromosomal inheritance?
A: Inheritance is the process by which this genetic information present in the genes is passed on from…
Q: What is the genotypic ratio of the offspring?
A: Introduction: GENOTYPE : Genotype is defined as the set of genes present in an organism i.e the…
Q: What is mitochondrial inheritance?
A: Mitochondria are a type of an organelle present in a cell. It is primarily responsible for the…
Q: How does meiosis explain the first law of Mendel?
A: The process in which the single cell divides twice in order to produce four cells consisting half…
Q: Are the children in generation IV likely to be carriers for the allele that causes albinism?
A: The alleles are generally of dominant and recessive type and some other forms like codominant and…
Q: Why do most cases of Down syndrome originate from the mother? And how is this linked to maternal age…
A: Down syndrome also called "trisomy 21" is a condition in which a child is born having an additional…
Q: What is the difference between extrachromosomal and delayed chromosomal inheritance?
A: Usually the genes are the hereditary units of life. The genes are present in the nucleus and from…
Q: What is an example of incomplete dominance?
A: The genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, genetic variation and…
Q: What is the most common chromosomal disorder?
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Q: What causes Extrachromosomal inheritance?
A: Inheritance or heredity is passing-on one trait form the parents to the progeny by either asexual or…
Q: Do the genes of the X and Ychromosomes determine onlysex characteristics?
A: The human cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. The first twenty three pairs of chromosomes are the…
Q: how is it possible for a person who inherited XY gene to have female phenotype?
A: There are 46 chromosomes in each cell of the human body. The sex chromosomes, X and Y, are two of…
Q: Who had proposed the chromosomal theory of the inheritance?
A: Inheritance is the basic principle of genetics that explains how the characteristics are passed from…
Q: What are the two types of twins and how do they arise?
A: The period from conception to birth is called pregnancy. When an egg is fertilized by a sperm, the…
Q: Could a woman who expresses the x-linked color-blind trait have a son with normal vision?
A: BASIC INFORMATION COLOR BLINDNESS it is an X - linked recessive trait in this the eye is not…
Q: How to diagnose aneuploidy?
A: The chromosomes are thread-like structure located in the nuclei of both plant and animal cells. They…
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 cause of aneuploidy?
A: Chromosomes are long thread-like structures that carry coded genetic information in the form of DNA.…
Q: by what age a person with trisomy 17 can survive?
A: Disease: When an organism’s body system does not work properly or any organ affects by viruses,…
Q: Is the inheritance autosomal or sex-linked?
A: The genes are located on the specific region of the DNA. Genes determine the phenotypic…
Q: whar are the meiotic events that could lead to the birth of an individual with either Patau syndrome…
A: The meiotic events causing Patau syndrome, or Turner syndrome in an individual. Introduction: Patau…
Q: Which inheritance is Uniparental?
A: Inheritance is the transmission of genetic traits from parents to the progeny.
Q: (a) During which division of meiosis do Mendel's rules of Segregation and Independent assortment…
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Q: What determines the phenotype of the offspring ?
A: An organism's genotype refers to its entire genetic makeup. The alleles or variants that an…
Q: by what age a person with trisomy 13 can survive?
A: Trisomy 13 or Patau syndrome occurs when 3 copies of the chromosome-13 are present in each cell of…
Q: Why are the marks of imprinted genes erased and reset during gamete formation?
A: Genomic imprinting is a phenomena which controls the gene expression involved in the embryonic…
Q: by what age a person with trisomy 18 can survive?
A: Trisomy is a rare genetic condition with three extra copies of chromosomes instead of two copies…
Q: Describe two mechanisms for causing uniparental disomy.
A: Uniparental disomy occurs when two copies of a chromosome are inherited from same parent, rather…
Does the maternal genotype contain zygotic genes?
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