What do you mean by Uniparental?

Q: What is it called when the offspring inherits two different alleles such as Tt? * O dominant O…

A: The process by which information that is stored in the DNA(genetic information) is passed from…

Q: How many of chromosomes do we get from each parent

A: A chromosome is a long DNA molecule that contains part or all of an organism's genetic material.…

Q: What's the difference between incomplete dominance and codominance?

A: The inheritance of traits occurs due to the transfer of genes from parents to children. Genes are…

Q: Is it possible for a boy–girl pair of twins to be genetically identical? Why or why not?

A: Introduction  Usually there is only one embryo develops at a time in a single pregnancy but in some…

Q: What is incomplete dominance?

A: The genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, genetic variation and…

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: If children obtain half their genes from one parent andhalf from the other parent, why aren’t…

A: Genetics is a branch of biology that is concerned with the study of Nucleic acids (Ribonucleic acid…

Q: What is Down syndrome ? When does Down syndrome occur ?

A: Human genetic disorders are caused due to the absence or excess or abnormal arrangement of one or…

Q: What is complete dominance?

A: Complete dominance: usually in maximum cases the diploid organisms carry 2 alleles of a gene. When…

Q: What causes incomplete dominance?

A: A gene is the physical and functional unit of heredity. The alternate forms of gene are referred to…

Q: What do you mean by homozygous condition for a gene?

A: Crossing over is defined as the process of exchange of chromosomal segments between the no sister…

Q: How and when does nondisjunction occur? What is the result of non-disjunction? In your own words

A: Cell division is the process by which a parent cell divides and makes two or more daughter cells. It…

Q: Is heterozygous dangerous?

A: An observable characteristic of an organism is called its phenotype, while the actual pair of…

Q: What are chromosomal disorders? Also gives a suitable example.

A: The chromosomes are thread-like structure located in the nuclei of both plant and animal cells. They…

Q: What does abnormal male karyotype mean?

A: A karyotype is the visual picture of number and morphology of chromosomes. It consists of analyses…

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: Does first born daughter look like father?

A: Genetics is the branch of Biology dealing with the study of genes including their structure,…

Q: What do you mean by gametes?

A: Step 1  Human beings are sexually reproducing viviparous organisms. Sexual reproduction is a mode of…

Q: What is polyembryony?

A: An embryo is defined as the early developmental stage of eukaryotic organisms following the…

Q: What do you mean by Apical dominance?

A: Plants are multicellular photosynthetic eukaryotes belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They are…

Q: How come the conclusion came to be as half of the son and none of the daughter have precorious…

A: It is a condition in which a child's body changes in an adult too soon before pubery.

Q: What is a down syndrome?

A: Humans are diploid organisms,i.e., humans will have two copies for each chromosome in the cells. One…

Q: Why the allele for Huntington disease is dominant?

A: Step 1 Huntington disease is an inherited disorder that causes the death of brain cells by the…

Q: What do you mean by differntiation?

A: A cell is the smallest unit of a living thing which contributes to the specialized function in the…

Q: What do you mean by recessive disease?

A: According to Mendelian inheritance, a single character is controlled by one or more genes where each…

Q: how is it possible for a person who inherited XY gene to have female phenotype?

A: There are 46 chromosomes in each cell of the human body. The sex chromosomes, X and Y, are two of…

Q: What are various kinds of twins?

A: Pregnancy is also termed as gestation during which one or more offspring develop in the uterus of a…

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: Explain what the word nondisjunction means?

A: Cell biology is the field of biology that studies the cell’s function and structure.

Q: What is the law of dominance?

A: Law of dominance is one of three laws given by mendel to comprehend the exchange of qualities from…

Q: What does it mean if you have 24 chromosomes?

A: Chromosomes are a compact form of DNA wrapped around some proteins and are generally present in a…

Q: If a human who is a tongue roller (T) and has unattached ear lobes (E) marries a person who cannot…

A: The trait is a character which we have inherited from our parents and then it will be passed to our…

Q: What do you mean by fraternal twins?

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

Q: What do you mean by hominoid stock?

A: Animal diversity and origin are the natural history about the animal forms. In the animal diversity,…

Q: What does double homozygous mean?

A: The alternate form of gene is known as allele. Allele are of two types, namely dominant allele and…

Q: Why are X-linked recessive disorders never passedfrom a father to a son?

A: A genetic characteristic or disorder can be handed down from parent to kid via mutations in a gene…

Q: What is homozygote and heterozygote?

A: Homozygote and heterozygote are two common terms used in genetics. An allele is a variant of a gene…

Q: What is 47,XXX Syndrome ?

A: A syndrome is characterized by a collection of medical indications and symptoms that are related to…

Q: What is dominance? Explain.

A: Introduction Dominance: When the one allele got suppressed by another allele and that failed to show…

Q: What determines the phenotype of the offspring ?

A: An organism's genotype refers to its entire genetic makeup. The alleles or variants that an…

Q: Difference between dominant and recessive?

A: Gregor Johann Mendel is known as father of genetics. He performed experiments on pea plants for…

Q: What is the science of heredity?

A: Step 1 Heredity is the sum of genetic endowment that is obtained from the parents. It is the…

Q: Does the maternal genotype contain zygotic genes?

A: The zygotic genes are genes that are transcribed in the embryonic nuclei developed following…

Q: What is the probability of obtaining a triply recessive individualfrom the parents ?

A: Introduction  Sir Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of Genetics. He was the pioneer scientist who…

Q: What is uniparental disomy and how does it arise?

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

Q: What does Germline DNA refers to?

A: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the genetic material that carries information from one generation to…

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.