What are the chances of two parents who carry the gene for albinism (an autosomal recessive disorder) having a child without albinism?

Q: If a colorblind woman married a man with normal vision and had kids.What are the chances of their…

A: Color blindness is an inherited disorder. Here the person who is color blind cannot distinguish…

Q: Omar and Aleema are expecting a baby and discover they are both carriers for the autosomal recessive…

A: Sickle cell anemia is a inherited Group of disorder where shape of red blood cells turns in sickle…

Q: Why do males and females express recessive X-linked alleles differently?

A: Genetics deals with the study of genes, genetic interactions, genetic variations and heredity in…

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

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

Q: What is the difference between an autosomal dominant andautosomal recessive pattern of inheritance?

A: In autosomal dominant a character must express itself in each generation. It can not skip any…

Q: What is the probability of a child having a recessive disorder if both parents are heterozygous…

A: Since disease is caused by recessive inheritance, all genes in a pair must be defective to cause…

Q: Under what conditions does a female acquire anX-linked recessive disorder?

A: The dominant allele can be defined as the type of allele which is expressed in the phenotype even if…

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: If a male is heterozygous and a female is homozygous recessive, what is the probability that the…

A: Let the gene 'A' encodes dominant trait. And 'A' allele is dominant over 'a' allele.  It is given…

Q: Two people heterozygous for Tay-Sachs (recessive disease) have two children who are both normal.…

A: Tay-Sachs is a genetic disorder. It is inherited only when both parents carry the gene for…

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: Therefore, what is the probability of this couple having a child who is colour blind ?

A: Color blindness is a condition wherein a person is unable to distinguish between two colors,…

Q: What are three common inheritance patterns for human monogenic diseases?

A: According to the question, we have to provide the name of three common inheritance patterns for…

Q: What is the probability that a couple will have a child (son or daughter) with an autosomal,…

A: Sir Gregor Mendel was a priest and a teacher who did the famous hybridization experiment on garden…

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: What is autosomal inheritance?

A: Autosomes are those chromosomes which control the character of our body not the sexual character. In…

Q: A woman who is a carrier for red-green colorblindness marries a man who is colorblind. If they have…

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Q: If a male is homozygous dominant and the female is homozygous recessive, what is the probability…

A: Genotype can be homozygous dominant (AA) or homozygous recessive (aa) or heterozygous (Aa).

Q: refers to the following pedigree of albinism (an autosomal recessive trait): What are the genotypes…

A: Sir Gregor Mendel was a priest and a teacher who did the famous hybridization experiment on garden…

Q: What are some diseases or genetic abnormalities caused by dominant genes? Why are severe dominant…

A: Genetic disorders are conditions that are caused due to aberration in the chromosomes and are mostly…

Q: If the dad is homozygous dominant for thick eyebrows, what is the percent chance of the baby having…

A: Mendel, in his monohybrid cross, demonstrated that with the help of Punnett squares, we can…

Q: If both parents are heterozygous for an autosomal trait (Aa), what is the probability that their…

A: The progeny inherit half of the genes from the father and half from the mother.  The gene content of…

Q: If both parents have an autosomal dominant trait, what can you say about their children? Explain

A: Autosomal dominance is a pattern of inheritance character of some genetic dis order. Autosomal…

Q: A recently married couple are both heterozygous for cystic fibrosis, a recessive genetic disorder.…

A: Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system,…

Q: What is a recessive epistatic gene?

A: Epistasis Epistasis can be defined as the condition where phenotypic expression of one gene is…

Q: What is the difference between homozygous recessive and homozygous?

A: The collection of genes in an individual is called genotypes. Each trait is coded by a pair of…

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: A color-blind woman and a man with normal color vision have three sons and six daughters. All the…

A: Colorblindness (red-green colorblindness) is color vision deficiency and colorblind individuals have…

Q: What are Autosomal Dominant and Autosomal Recessive?

A: Genes are made of nucleic acids called DNA. The variant forms of genes are called alleles. The…

Q: If two parents have a recessive trait, can they have a child that has a dominant trait?

A: Introduction  Even if only one copy of the dominant trait exists, dominant traits are always…

Q: What is the probability that II-5 is a carrier for the recessive trait?

A: Recessive in genetics is the condition that can be masked by the dominant character. These…

Q: Why do unrelated children with a disorder such as Down syndrome resemble each other more closely…

A: Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that is caused due to presence of an extra copy of the 21st…

Q: What are polygenic inheritence?

A: Gene is a particular nucleotide sequences in RNA or DNA. It is generally located on a chromosome.…

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: What are twins? Genetically, what are the two types of twins that can occur?

A: Introduction In this question we have to define twins and have to discuss about the types of twins,…

Q: How does the pedigree of an autosomal recessive trait differ from the pedigree of an X-linked…

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

Q: What are the sex-linked disorders that are inheritable?

A: The X and Y chromosomes are defined as the sex chromosomes in humans. A female has two X…

Q: What are the odds of the person with sickle cell anemia disorder passing it on to their children if…

A: Sir Gregor Mendel was a priest and a teacher who did the famous hybridization experiment on garden…

Q: Your brother has an autosomal recessive disorder, while you are unaffected. Neither one of your…

A: Question - Your brother has an autosomal recessive disorder, while you are unaffected. Neither one…

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: what is the probability that a couple (both heterozygous for the same recessive mutation) will have…

A: “Homozygous defect” takes place If the type of “deleterious mutation” is the same in both copies of…

Q: If both parents are carriers of an autosomal recessive trait, what can you say about their children?…

A: Mendel coined the word "trait" to characterise the traits exhibited by the genes on chromosomes when…

Q: What is the most common autosomal recessive disease?

A: Autosomal recessive disease refers to the type of disease that can be passed down through families.…

Q: If a woman is heterozygous for neurofibromatosis (a dominant disorder) and produces with a…

A: Neurofibromatosis (NF1) is hereditary disease (which can be passed on from one generation to…

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: What is recessive epistasis?

A: In epistasis, the collaboration between qualities is hostile, to such an extent that one quality…

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: What must be true about the genotypes of parents who have a child who has a recessive trait?

A: Given: the child has a recessive trait, so let the genotype of the child be - aa for dominant trait…

Q: What are three similarities and three differences between Autosomal Dominant and Autosomal…

A: Patterns of inheritance in people incorporate autosomal strength and recessiveness, X-connected…

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.