We have learned that Mendel's Law of Segregation is not really applicable to alleles found on sex chromosomes. But does it apply to the actual sex chromosomes? Explain

Q: Mendel knew that some traits could be closely associated. Mendel said that those traits were…

A: According to Gregor Mendel, genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each…

Q: , why do we need to look at genetics at both organismal and the molecular level?

A: Dominance Dominance is defined as the phenomenon of masking the effect of another trait. The…

Q: Red green colorblind as is a sex linked trait if a carrier female has children with a normal Male…

A: Red-green color blindness is a sex-linked genetic mutation on the OPN1LW or OPN1MW gene that is…

Q: Colorblindness is a sex-linked trait.  If a heterozygous female crosses with a colorblind male, what…

A: It is a sex-linked recessive disorder caused due to the defect in either red or green cone of eye…

Q: In which type of cross(es) can we apply and demonstrate the law of segregation and law of…

A: The process through which a child inherits genetic information from a parent is known as…

Q: What is the difference between Mendels' las of segregation and indepedne assortment?

A: Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics proposed three laws based on his pea plant experiment. The…

Q: Wooly, curly hair is due to a rare dominant allele (H) and its recessive allele (h) produces…

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

Q: How can Mendel's postulates of segregation and independent assortment be explained by meiosis?

A: Mandal in 1900 gave the concepts about the laws of genetics. His two laws were- the law of…

Q: What is meant by multiple allelic traits

A: Gene is the basic unit of genetic material DNA. Gene contains hereditary information and information…

Q: When Gregor Mendel was working in the mid 1800s, scientists had not yet discovered chromosomes or…

A: Allele do not show any blending and that both the character are recovered as such in F2 generation…

Q: In the results that Mendel obtained, the violet colored flower was dominant to the white flower…

A: According to Mendel, various hereditary traits are controlled by factors and there is a pair of…

Q: In cats, there is a gene that codes for fur colour on the X chromosome. One allele gives black fur,…

A: In case of cats , gene that code for coat colour is present on the X chromosome. Two fur colour are…

Q: What must be the genotypes of the parents of a colorblind daughter? Explain. If number 13 marries a…

A: Answer: COLOURBLIND is a X-linked disorder which can be transferred from parents to progeny , the…

Q: Hermione's parents are muggles (cannot perform magic). How is it possible for Hermione to do magic?…

A: Wizards: ww muggles: Ww, WW Strong: MM (silencing gene) Strong magician: MM Moderate or normal…

Q: Why most of the genetic traits do NOT follow Mendel`s laws?

A: Most of the traits do not follow Mendel’s law because Mendel’s law describes the inheritance of…

Q: While working in his garden at the abbey where he lived, Mendel used pea plants to demonstrate how…

A: Mendel performed hybridization experiments on the garden pea.

Q: What phenotypes, in what ratios, would you expect from crossing a person with blood type AB (IAIB)…

A: Answer:  PHENOTYPIC RATIO = It means physical appearance , which shows that ratio of total number of…

Q: Which of the following does not cause a modification of Mendelian ratios? a. Sex-linked inheritance…

A: In traditional Mendelian genetics, the ratios are:   Monohybrid Cross (single trait/character)…

Q: Can Mendel’s principle of segregation be illustrated by a cross between two homozygous dominant…

A: The law of segregation proposed by Mendel states that during the gamete formation, each gamete…

Q: When does Mendel’s second law of independent assortment occur? Does it occur during mitosis, meiosis…

A: According to Law of Independent Assortment ,during a dihybrid cross, an assortment of traits (each…

Q: In flies, long wings are a dominant trait, and short wings are a recessive trait. Medium wings are…

A: Dominant traits are those that are expressed when in heterozygous condition and who mask the…

Q: Using the graph in Figure 11-20, determine how many offspring were involved in the hypothetical…

A: In human beings, the skin color can be described as an example of polygenic inheritance. In this…

Q: Are sex-linked traits, sex-limited traits, and sex influence traits following Mendelian principles…

A: The DNA is the hereditary unit of an organism. The genes are composed of DNA  which is passed on…

Q: hich if the following is not among Mendels principles? a. There are factors that is transmitted from…

A: Mendel's Principles: Four postulates are there : 1 Principle of paired factors  2 Principle of…

Q: Which law of Mendel is universally accepted? State the law?

A: The branch of biology dealing with the study of genes, their inheritance patterns, as well as…

Q: Polydactyly (having more than five digits) results from the presence of a dominant allele. A man has…

A: Polydactyly is the condition of having extra fingers and toes in humans. It is caused by…

Q: Mendelian multifactorial trait and a polygenic multifactorial trait

A: multifactorial traits are the phenotypes that are influenced by environment other than multiple…

Q: The outcome of Mendel’s law of independent assortment is dependent on how chromosomes are arranged…

A: Mendel was a genetician whi studied the contrasting pairs of alleles in Pisum sativum. Based on his…

Q: Part 1: Make a three part process drawing (like a cartoon strip) to demonstrate Mendel’s Principle…

A: An allele is a variant form of a given gene.  Phenotype is the observed physical traits of an…

Q: In humans, curly hair is incompletely dominant over straight making wavy hair in a heterozygous…

A: Incomplete dominance: – Incomplete dominance is also known as partial dominance observed when the…

Q: Can we tell what Dudleys second allele is? Why or why not?

A: Lets take 2 genes for the easy expressing magical ability. First trait for magic Dominant Trait -…

Q: What is Mendel’s law of segregation?     Allele pairs separate during the formation of gametes,…

A: Gregor Mendel is called Father of Genetics. He discovered the laws of inheritance. He has proposed…

Q: Why do you think deleterious dominant alleles are not very common?

A: Microevolution:- It is defined as changes in the frequency of a gene in a population, herbicide…

Q: A woman with a colorblind father marries a colorblind man. What would be all possible genotypes and…

A: ANSWER) The possible genotypes would be- XcXc, XcY, XcX, XY Possible phenotypes would be 50% of the…

Q: When Mendel did his experiments, it was the case that the genes for each trait were on separate…

A: Mendel on working on the pea plants proposed 3 mendelian laws, the traits or genes which inherit by…

Q: Which of the experiments Mendel performed led him to distinguish alleles as dominant or recessive

A: INTRODUCTION Plant height, pod form and colour,…

Q: why Most polymorphisms areanonymous?

A: Polymorphism:   It is set place in population when two members or at least two or more members of…

Q: The loci of the two pair of genes concerned are on the same pair of chromosomes (assuming no…

A: Crossing over is the exchange of chromosome segments during cell division such that many new…

Q: Someone gives you a bag of yellow peas and you plant them in the Spring. Can you predict the color…

A: Genetics and heredity is the study of how genetic traits and the factors controlling them are…

Q: we learned that the two chromosomes of a homologous pair carry information for the same…

A: Chromosomes are long thread-like structures that carry coded genetic information in the form of DNA.…

Q: Let R = Red flowers and r = white flowers, and T = tall plants and t short plants. If the uppercase…

A: rrTt= pink flowers, tall.  This is the case of incomplete dominance. The character of tallness is…

Q: Is it a dominate or recessive allel and autosomal or x linked ?give reason Give possible genotype…

A: Genetic disorders are caused due to mutations in chromosomes. The cause for mutation can be…

Q: Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment refers to [ Select ] In the picture below, what assorts…

A: Mendel uncovered the fundamental laws of heredity. His experiments demonstrated that the…

Q: When does Mendel’s first law occur of equal segregation occur? Does it occur during mitosis, meiosis…

A: The Law of Equal Segregation is defined as" at the time of gamete arrangement, the two alleles at a…

Q: Gregor Mendel discovered the basis of heredity with his sweet pea plant experiments. In his studies,…

A: Given: Yellow pod color dominant to green pod color Round pea shape dominant to wrinkled pea shape…

Q: Mendelian Genetics The presence of a dimple on the cheek is governed by a dominant gene. A couple…

A: Heterozygous means that you acquired different versions of a gene from each of your parents. A…

Q: Mendel’s observation that two different traits could be inherited independently of each other can be…

A: Genes on distinct chromosomes will be transmitted separately. When Mendel mated peas with many…

Q: How would you distinguish a trait caused by a sex-linked recessive allele from one caused by a…

A: Humans and other mammals have two sex chromosomes, the X and Y chromosomes. Females have two X…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.