Summarize the environmental factors that may influencepolygenic traits such as height and skin color

Q: Please define the term “polygenic trait”. Please compare the polygenic traits with nonpolygenic…

A: Polygenic Trait: - A polygenic trait is a trait whose hereditary transmission and expression is…

Q: Summarize how to identify an X-linked trait from anautosomal trait.

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

Q: Compare and contrast polygenic and multifactorial traits.

A: Polygenic and multifactorial traits are two modes of inheritance patterns found in nature with or…

Q: Define the characteristic of a polygenic trait ?

A: Polygenic traits:                              Syllabified meaning:~ Polygenic: 'multiple genes' /…

Q: Summarize the effects of inversions and translocationso n fertility

A: A permanent change in the DNA’s base sequence is termed as mutation. Chromosomal abnormalities occur…

Q: Explain the inheritance of dominant, recessive, complex, and sex-linked traits.

A: The pattern of inheritance describes the transmission of diseases in a family. It helps in…

Q: Explain the potential influence of the environment on phenotypic expression and cite an example.

A: Genes are the functional units of heredity. Genes also contain information which is converted to…

Q: define allele and discuss how alleles affect the traits of anindividual; and

A: The traits of a living organism are determined by its genotype. These traits are inherited in a…

Q: Briefly describe how twin studies can reveal whether or not the appearance of a trait is strongly…

A: Studies on identical or fraternal twins are known as twin studies. They want to show how…

Q: 1. Please examine the character matrix below:. Traits | $ * | 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

A: Evolution means change. It is the study of origin of life.  A phylogenetic tree is used to depict…

Q: discuss the interaction of heredity and environment inproducing individual traits.

A: In ecology, heredity is defined as the inheritance of biological traits or characteristics from one…

Q: List all the components that contribute to the phenotypic variance and define each component.

A: Phenotypic variance is denoted by the symbol ‘Vp’ Phenotypic variance is used to calculate the…

Q: B. Write the expected number of genotypic combinations if both parents are heterozygous for the…

A: B). Given: Both parents are heterozygous for the traits: Plant height and seed color. Let, Plant…

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: List examples of complex and quantitative traits.

A: A genetically determined characteristic is known as trait. It is a distinguishing quality of an…

Q: State Mendel’s law of segregation and explain how it isrelated to gamete formation and fertilization

A: Introduction  A gene is consisting of a pair alleles/ factors and can be dominant or recessive.…

Q: Baldness is a sex-linked trait. What parental genotypes could produce a bald woman? *use H = normal…

A: Sex linked traits are those whose genes are located on sex chromosomes.

Q: Explain the process of protein synthesis and the role of DNA in creating individual traits.

A: According to the Mandel 'factor' that control  the character of organisms. Later this factor is…

Q: Explain the terms dominant and recessive in relation to alleles and phenotypes; explain Mendel’s law…

A: Explain the terms dominant and recessive in relation to alleles and phenotypes; explain Mendel’s law…

Q: Determine the possible offspring (phenotypic percentage) if you cross a homozygous dominant black…

A: In this question, two hamsters are crossed. One hamster is homozygous dominant and other hamster is…

Q: Describe a multifactorial trait that could have diet and nutrition as environmental influences.

A: Multifactorial trait describes a trait or characters whose expressions are determined by interaction…

Q: explain homozygous recessive trait and homozygous dominant.

A: A gene is a unit of hereditary that is encoded in thousands of number on the helical strands of…

Q: Briefly explain how the number of genes influencing a polygenic trait can be determined.

A: Polygenic traits are controlled by more than one gene. The gene may be located on same chromosomes…

Q: Define the polygenic trait ?

A: Polygenic inheritance When one phenotypic character is controlled by more than one gene, it is…

Q: Summarize the meaning of phenotypic variance

A: The condition of being different, divergent, or having a degree of divergence is known as the…

Q: Describe two potential problems resulting frombleeding.

A: A bleeding disorder is a medical condition that creates a problem with the clotting of blood. After…

Q: The passing of traits is called

A: Every living organism is made up of cells and they are present in an orderly fashion to make up a…

Q: Non-additive genetic factors make children less resemble their parents   true and false (with…

A: The degree to which genetic differences account for differences in people's characteristics is…

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: Describe the genotype and phenotype of a “genetic carrier” and use this term appropriately for…

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

Q: What are the causes of phenotypic variation

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

Q: What are the causes of unexpected rations and why? (non-dominant nature of traits, several genes…

A: The Mendelian traits show phenotypic ratio of 9:3:3:1 in case of a dihybrid cross, and 3:1 in case…

Q: Define blending inheritance and contrast it with preformationism.

A: Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, their inheritance patterns,…

Q: Elaborate on the importance of mitotic and meiotic divisions in the transmission of traits

A: Meiosis is the kind of cell division that makes egg and sperm cells. Mitosis is a fundamental cycle.…

Q: Traits that are hidden and do not manifest in the offspring are called_________. A. Dominant trait…

A: The genes are found on different chromosomes, occasionally far apart, but on the same chromosome,…

Q: Draw a dihybrid Punnett Square between 2 individuals heterozygous for both traits. Identify the…

A: A cross that involves two pairs of contrasting characters is called dihybrid cross. Genotype refers…

Q: Identify the term that best matches the definition or description given. a. incomplete dominance b.…

A: DNA contains the genetic information that allows living organisms to survive. The genome refers to…

Q: valuate the significance of nondisjunction on inheritance and development.

A: Nondisjunction can be defined as the phenomenon in which there is a failure to separate the…

Q: Define quantitative trait locus.

A: The influence of multiple genes leads to a number of traits called phylogenic traits. The increasing…

Q: ____traits are impacted by the function of multiple genes, whereas pleiotropic genes impact multiple…

A: A trait is the specific characteristic of an organism. Traits can be determined by the genes or the…

Q: Explain how sex chrpmosomes violate Mendel's laws. (in 5 sentences

A: When genes are inherited, they are inherited independently of each other, according to Gregor…

Q: A trait exhibits 100% concordance for both monozygotic and dizygotic twins. What conclusion can you…

A: Genetics is the study of genes, their interactions, and the effect of environment on genes. Broadly…

Q: Explain how you can predict the sex-linked inheritance a son receives by looking at the mother's…

A: The genotype of a human father has sex chromosomes XYWhile that of a mother has sex chromosomes XX.

Q: Explain how a comparison of concordance in monozygotic and dizygotic twins can be used to determine…

A: The reproduction can be defined as the process of production of offspring by the parents. The…

Q: Define incomplete dominance, codominance,multiple alleles, epistasis, and polygenic inheritance

A: All living organisms reproduce and produce offsprings. The offsprings produced are similar to their…

Q: Explain some of the ways genes may interact to affect the phenotype and discuss how a single gene…

A: ANSWER:  Some of the ways by which genes may interact to affect the phenotype are mentioned below:…

Q: List as many human traits as you can that are likely to be under the control of a polygenic mode of…

A: Polygenic inheritance is a kind of inheritance in which the characteristic or trait is created by…

Q: Explain how you would go about determining therelative importance of genes and the environment…

A: Diabetes is a human disease that increases thirst and dilutes the urine. This disease occurs rarely…

Q: Indicate the nature of the trait and type of inheritance involved in each of the following…

A: Genetic traits are regulated by genes.

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The collaboration between the cells and proteins that work together as a defense system against infection comprises the immune system.Each of them performs a variety of tasks to recognize and/or react against a foreign body.