Polycystic kidney disease is a dominant trait thatcauses the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys.The condition eventually leads to kidney failure. Achild with polycystic kidney disease is born to acouple, neither of whom shows the disease. Whatpossibilities might explain this outcome?

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

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: Which of the following disorders is not caused by a single gene defect? a. Diabetes b. Clediocranial…

A: *Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when pancreas does not produce enough insulin a harmone…

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Q: According to Figure 1, what is the probability that that next child of the couple marked with an…

A: Osteoporosis is a disease of bone caused by a shortage of calcium and other minerals in bones which…

Q: is an attached earlobe a dominant or recessive trait?

A: Answer: Introduction: Attached earlobes and free earlobes both are representative demonstrate the…

Q: Piebald spotting is a condition found in humans inwhich there are patches of skin that lack…

A: Piebaldism or piebald spotting refers to a condition that is found in almost all mammal species. It…

Q: Given this history only, what are the chances that their child will have cystic fibrosis? Is there…

A: Question - Given this history only , what are the chances that their child will have cystic fibrosis…

Q: Assume that two parents with normal vision have a son who has red-green color blindness. Which…

A: Color Blindness is a X-linked recessive disease which means the color blindness disorder occurs due…

Q: A son with cystic fibrosis is born to a couple that appears normal.  What are the chances that any…

A: Cystic fibrosis is a recessive disease, which means that both copies of the allele in homozygous…

Q: Define polygenic inheritance. Why does polygenicinheritance sometimes allow parents to produce…

A: Introduction  Inheritance is referred as the transfer of character from parents to offspring and…

Q: a. If a couple had more than one child, would all the children have the same bands as the first one?…

A: Possessing of genes in a child is random though it has the genes of both parents .

Q: Predict the chances that homozygous normal parents for cystic fibrosis will have a child with cystic…

A: Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder in which the gene that produces the cystic fibrosis…

Q: can a women who is type A and a man who is type A have a child who is Type O? use punnett squrares…

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Q: If a mutation in a dominant gene occurred during gamete formation which resulted in a new recessive…

A: Alleles are generally defined as the variants of a gene. Based on the alleles present in the genome,…

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: 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: In humans, having dimpled cheeks is dominant to non-dimpled cheeks. Isit possible that two dimpled…

A: As dimpled cheeks are dominant,the genotypes are DD and Dd. As the non-dimpled cheeks are…

Q: Do males and females show equal chances of inheriting the trait? Why or why not

A: There are two facets to this question which make out two completely different answers. Both the…

Q: What will happen when during meiosis, chromosomal crossover will not occur?

A: At pachytene (prophase-I) stage of meiosis, non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes exchange…

Q: Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant disease in humans, but the first symptoms usually…

A: Autosomal dominant disorder inheritance The dominant autosomal mutated gene cause the defect in…

Q: If two married individuals had a sibling affected by cystic fibrosis, what are chances that they…

A: Cystic Fibrosis is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. It is primarily caused by the mutation…

Q: Can a woman who is type AB and a man who is type B have a child who is type A? use punnett squares…

A: The Punnett square is defined as a square diagram which is used to give the genotypes of a…

Q: Which blood types are possible for the children of a female with genotype lBi and a male with…

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Q: Explain the chances that a color-blind woman who is married to a man with normal vision will produce…

A: Let the genotype of color blind woman is XcXc and genotype of normal vision man is XY. We can…

Q: Humans have a gene, "T," that is involved in muscle formation of the tongue. Individuals with the…

A: We all know about pedigree analysis. If some male having dominant genotype and their female partner…

Q: Beth and Tom each have a sibling with cystic fibrosis, butneither Beth nor Tom nor any of their…

A: Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder caused either due to absence of the gene that…

Q: following is an example of epistasis?

A: Epistatis: It is defined as the the action of masking one gene upon expression of another gene. Even…

Q: Suppose that a husband and wife are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for albinism. If they…

A: Alleles are the variants of a gene. Sometimes one trait is controlled by different forms of a gene.…

Q: If a male is colorblind, what information do you absolutely know about his daughters?

A: A gene is a sequence of nucleotides in genome that codes for a functioning molecule. There is…

Q: Normal male Pikachu - straight tail Normal Female pikachu - Indented tail Abnormal Male Pikachu -…

A: Pedigree analysis is a diagrammatic representation of the inheritance of a particular trait…

Q: The ability to roll the tongue to form a “tube” results from a dominantgene. Suppose that a woman…

A: Dominant allele is a particular variant of a trait which for some reason express itself strongly all…

Q: A brown-eyed man with "hitchhiker's thumb" marries a brown-eyed woman with a straight thumb. If…

A: Hitchhiker's thumb is a genetic condition in which the thumb of the individual is hypermobile and is…

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

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Q: In terms of ontogeny, differentiate the following: a. epiphysis from hypophysis b. retina from organ…

A: The sensation is the activation of sensory receptors as well as the central nervous system to allow…

Q: Which inheritance is Uniparental?

A: Inheritance is the transmission of genetic traits from parents to the progeny.

Q: Suppose a woman has four sons, and two are colorblind but have normal blood clotting and two have…

A: The normal female sex chromosome is denoted by X. The chromosome with color blind allele is denoted…

Q: Achondroplasia is a form of dwarfism that is inherited as a monogenic trait. Two dwarfs marry and…

A: Genetics is a piece of science stressed over the examination of characteristics, inherited…

Q: Contrast incomplete dominance and codominance

A: Dominance means the relationship between alleles of a single gene in genetics. To comprehend the…

Q: (a) During which division of meiosis do Mendel's rules of Segregation and Independent assortment…

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Q: Create a Punnett square to illustrate the offspring that could result if Felix had children with a…

A: The WAS stands for the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. It is the X-linked disorder, which means that if…

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

A: Color blindness is a genetic disorder in which the photoreceptors of the retina cannot process…

Q: In humans, having freckles is dominant to not having freckles. What are the possible genotypes with…

A: Dominant genotypes can exist in two forms homozygous and heterozygous and recessive genotypes are…

Q: Two albinos marry and have four normal children. Howis this possible?

A: Introduction Albinism is a genetic condition that causes a person's skin, hair, and eyes to be…

Q: a parent possesses two copies of each gene. When this parent passes on its alleles for a gene, how…

A: The principle of segregation explains how the variants of a gene (pairs) are divided into…

Q: Would it be possible for a woman with an uncleft chinto have children with cleft chins? Use a…

A: Living organisms are classified into haploid, diploid, triploid, and so on based on the sets of…

Q: If a person heterozygous for cystic fibrosis mates with another person heterozygous for Huntington’s…

A: Answer: PUNNETT SQUARE = It is the technique to discover the traits and genotypes transfer in…

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.