Marfan’s syndrome is a disorder of the fibrous connective tissue, characterized by many symptoms, includinglong, thin digits; eye defects; heart disease; and long limbs. (Flo Hyman, the American volleyball star, suf- fered from Marfan’s syndrome. She died from a ruptured aorta.) a. Use the pedigree above to propose a mode of in- heritance for Marfan’s syndrome. b. What genetic phenomenon is shown by this pedigree? c. Speculate on a reason for such a phenomenon.

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A: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome is a very rare and genetically passed autosomal recessive disease…

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A: All the individuals obtain one allele from the father and one from the mother. Two alleles or…

Q: Suppose that two people having free earlobes start a family. Their first child has free earlobes and…

A: Inheritance is the process of transmitting the traits from parent to offspring. Traits of an…

Q: Suppose a woman was heterozygous forblood type A and her husband had bloodtype AB. With the aid of a…

A: The Punnett square is defined as a square diagram that is utilized for predicting the genotypes of a…

Q: Assuming that the trait represented by the filled symbols in the pedigree is an inherited trait due…

A: Answer - DOMINANT.

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A: The functional unit of heredity is known as genes. They consist of deoxyribonucleic acids(DNA). Some…

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A: This question is based on inheritable disease cystinuria.

Q: d. Draw a pedigree to depict the following family (Write all the genotypes): One couple has a son…

A: Albinism  Albinism is a kind of recessive disorder inherited from both parents to their offsprings.

Q: An individual named Pat with Prader-Willi syndrome produced anoffspring named Lee with Angelman…

A: Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome are two different disorders which are associated with…

Q: óa. In a pedigree, a square represents a male. If it is darkened he has hemophilia; if clear, he had…

A: Hemophilia  It is a X linked recessive disorder. In this disorder the blood clotting is not…

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Q: What is the most likely mode of inheritance for the attached pedigree?

A: Pedigree analysis is the process by which we can clearly analyse and observe the mode of inheritance…

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A: Dominant and recessive traits exist when a trait has two different forms at the gene level. The…

Q: In a disputed parentage case, the child is blood type O, while the mother is blood type A. What…

A: There are 4 primary blood groups (kinds of blood) – A, B, AB and O. Your blood group is controlled…

Q: In a cross between an individual with Huntington disease and an unaffected individual, what are the…

A: Huntington disease is a progressive brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, emotional…

Q: Make a pedigree chart based on the situation Blood Type • Blood type is determined by the presence…

A: A pedigree chart is a graphic that depicts the prevalence and appearance of phenotypes of a certain…

Q: Curly hair (C) is dominant to straight hair (c). Is it possible for a curly haired man to produce…

A: Curly hair is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, meaning that one parent has straight hair…

Q: Is cystic fibrosis a genotypic or phenotypic change? Explain your reasoning.

A: Cystic fibrosis is a disorder that results in the build up of thick and sticky mucus in the the…

Q: Which gene  is inherited from the father only?

A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present in the DNA molecule. It encodes information for the…

Q: Could an individual with blood type O (genotype ii) be a legitimate child of parents in which one…

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Q: Does it matter that the precise meaning of the allelic symbols T, t, R, and r is not given? Why or…

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Q: Which one cannot be a reason for chromosome disjunction anomaly?

A: Disjunction anomaly  When the chromosomes of a cell unable to separate and each daughter cells got…

Q: If a girl has blood type O, what could be the genotypes and corresponding phenotypes of her parents?

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Q: From this pedigree is it dominant or recessive. Is ur autosomal or sex-linked?

A: Pedigree is define a diagrammatic representation of the individuals of a family for a particular…

Q: If a man who has blood type AB marries a woman who is heterozygous for blood type A, which genotype…

A: Blood group inheritance is a kind of inheritance of multiple alleles which involves three alleles…

Q: The pedigree below tracks the inheritance of a genetic disorder through a family's generation. I II…

A: This given pedigree has three generations (I, II, III) and nine individuals.  Among them, five…

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A: X-linked recessive inheritance

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Q: . The pedigree below was obtained for a rare kidney disease.a. Deduce the inheritance of this…

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Q: If the pedigree below is for an autosomal recessive characteristic, which individuals are definitely…

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Q: a. On the basis of this pedigree, what do you think is the most likely mode of inheritance for…

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Q: If the mother is blood type AB , the father is Blood type O . Could the daughter who has type O be…

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Q: Draw a pedigree to depict the following family: One couple has a son and a daughter with normal skin…

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Q: Humans can have one of four possible blood types: O, A, B, and AB. A young man has type AB blood and…

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Q: a. What phenomena apply to the condition in this family? Answer b. How is the inheritance pattern of…

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Q: Construct pedigree charts using the inheritance of hemophilia in figure 92 (page 113). This is…

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Q: а. Can an AB+ mother and an O- father have an AB- baby? b. List all blood types likely to result…

A: * There are four types of blood groups A group B group O group AB group. * A blood group will have…

Q: Gina has blood type O. Her mother’s blood type is A. What are the possible genotypes of her father?…

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Q: n the genetically inherited disease called hemophilia. From the information in he pedigree chart…

A: Haemophilia follows X linked recessive pattern. The genes associated with this condition are located…

Q: If a man with type AB blood marries a woman with type O,what blood types would you expect in their…

A: Answer: Introduction: In order to determine the blood type of child, we can make assumptions about…

Q: Identify the type(s) of trait in the pedigree below*

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Q: Is the Down syndrome inherited through Mendelian patters? If not how it is inherited?

A:

Q: Given the following pedigree, is the trait indicated by the darkened shapes a dominant or a…

A: A pedigree chart depicts the members of a family who are impacted by a genetic trait by displaying a…

Q: know that cystic fibrosis runs in your mothers family. Your fathers family is not known to have it.…

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Q: If two individuals with blood type AB marry, what are the odds that each of their children will have…

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Q: If a color-blind woman married a man whohad normal color vision, what would be theprobable…

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Q: 2. 3 7. II 2. 7. 8. (i) Predict the mode of inheritance of the genetic disorder. Explain. (ii) Which…

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A: The modes of inheritance for single gene diseases are divided into five basic type which includes-…

Q: If a man with blood type A, one of whose parents had blood type O, marries a woman with blood type…

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Stress

Stress is defined as the feeling of being overwhelmed or unable to cope with emotional or mental pressure. Any event or action that makes a person annoyed, furious, or nervous can trigger it. Chemical changes in the body caused by stress can cause blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and heart rate to rise.