What is sickle cell anemia? What is the true inheritance pattern? How did scientists discover the true inheritance pattern?

Q: What is the genotypic ratio

A: Dominant seed color-yellow - indicated by RR Recessive seed yellow- green - indicated by rr when…

Q: What phenotype is expressed from the genetic trait hemophilia?

A: The genetic trait hemophilia is an inheritable trait that exhibits the X-linked recessive…

Q: Do we know what genes cause Down syndrome?

A: In simple words, Gene can be defined as the basic physical and functional unit of heredity. Genes…

Q: Which gene  is inherited from the mother only?

A: Cell division is a process of a parent cell replicating it chromosomal content and dividing itself…

Q: Is Miller Fisher syndrome hereditary?

A: Miller Fischer syndrome is a rare acquired nerve disorder that is characterized by abnormal muscle…

Q: Hemophilia A is transmitted by an X-linked recessive gene.With an affected father, what is the…

A: Answer: Introduction: In X-linked recessive disorders, an affected father has a mutation in a gene…

Q: i) A couple each having sickle cell trait have five children. What is the probability that they will…

A: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disorder that follows the autosomal recessive pattern of…

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 an example of a lethal allele?

A: Alleles that cause an organism to die are called lethal alleles. The genes which result in viability…

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 non Mendelian inheritance?

A: DNA is the universal genetic material. Genes located in nuclear chromosomes follow Mendelian…

Q: What is autosomal inheritance?

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

Q: What is an example of a non Mendelian inheritance?

A: Non- Mendelian inheritance is the inheritance pattern that does not follow Mendelian traits. The…

Q: Which gene  is inherited from the father only?

A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present in the DNA molecule. It encodes information for the…

Q: Why do most cases of Down syndrome originate from the mother? And how is this linked to maternal age…

A: Down syndrome also called "trisomy 21" is a condition in which a child is born having an additional…

Q: Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. She had no known children, and…

A: Haemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disorder. The abnormal gene responsible for haemophilia is…

Q: What is a carrier?

A: A carrier has a genetic defect linked to a disease that may pass it on to others. An individual with…

Q: Why doesn't sickle cell anemia "prove" the existence of biological race?

A: *sickle cell Anaemia is a inherited blood disorder  *This disease produce abnormal haemoglobin  in…

Q: Which of the following genetic diseases is/are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait: sickle cell…

A: Introduction: Huntington's disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown…

Q: Mention Mendelian laws and how they fit in with sickle cell anaemia Are there any advantages to…

A: Introduction :- Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited red blood cell condition in which the body's…

Q: What is an allelic mutation?

A: Gene is a unit of heredity that is transferred from 1 generation to another, from parents to their…

Q: Is the sickle cell allele dominant or recessive? Explain. What is sickle cell trait?

A: Sickle cell is a red blood cell trait. The red blood cells become sickle cell in shape.

Q: Explain the concept of mendal's law of inheritence?

A: Gregor Mendel conducted experiments on pea plant (Pisum sativum) demonstrating the inheritance of…

Q: What is the mode of inheritance for image shown below?

A: The pedigree chart represents the presence or absence of a trait and characteristics in a family…

Q: What are the types of non Mendelian inheritance?

A: To satisfy Mendelian inheritance, some assumptions should be taken. They are -  1. Organisms should…

Q: What is an example of Mendelian inheritance?

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

Q: If you cross a female carrier of color blindness with a normal male, what are the chances of having…

A: Genes are the functional unit of inheritance. They are the sequence of nucleotides that are present…

Q: Is blood type an example of pleiotropy?

A: Pleiotropy is a condition in which a single gene controls multiple phenotype characteristics or…

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: What are some examples of non mendelian inherittance diseases?

A: According to the Mendelian inheritance the characteristics of an individual is determine by the…

Q: What is polygenic inheritance?

A: Sometimes a single phenotypic trait is the controlled by many genes together. Each gene can…

Q: what fraction of the offspring of two parents with sickle trait would you expect to have sickle cell…

A: Sickle cell anemia is one of a group of blood disorders known as sickle cell disease. It affects the…

Q: Sickle cell anemia is caused by an individual carrying two recessive copies of the hemoglobin gene…

A: Sickle cell anaemia has autosomal recessive inheritance meaning two copies of recessive alleles are…

Q: Given the information regarding sickle cell anemia, if two carriers were to have children, what…

A: Sickle-cell disease is a condition of the blood wherein the structure of the hemoglobin within the…

Q: effects of the sickle cell disease(inheriting two copi

A: Sickle cell disease is a type of inherited disease. It is caused by a defective gene. When a baby…

Q: Is the Down syndrome inherited through Mendelian patters? If not how it is inherited?

A:

Q: What is Mendel's law?

A: The father of genetics is George Mendel who was an Austrian monk invented the basic principles of…

Q: What are Genetic defects?

A: Genetic defects Genetic disorder can be a single gene disorder, chromosomal disorder, and complex…

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: What are the treatments for sickle cell anemia disorder and what are the possible treatments…

A: Sickle cell anemia disorder is a type of genetic or inherited blood disorder that results in the…

Q: What is heterozygote advantage. How does this phenomenon explain the preponderance of disorders such…

A: Introduction  Each gene has two alleles, or variations. When two identical copies of a gene are…

Q: What advantage is there for individuals that are heterozygous for the sickle cell character?

A: Advantage for the individuals having heterozygous allele condition for sickle cell character.

Q: What mode of inheritance is exhibited? ____________________________________   Using the letters,…

A: Pedigree analysis is a chart that represents a family tree, which displays the members of the family…

Q: How might a genetic counselor help a couple determine whether or not they could have a son with…

A: Hemophilia is a rare type of disorder. In this, the blood doesn't clot normally because of the…

Q: What is the chance that a child of III-1 and III-4 will have the disease?

A: Pedigree is a family tree drawn with standard genetic symbol representing the ancestry of an…

Q: How can the retinoblastoma trait be inherited in a dominant fashion if the deletion of the RB gene…

A: Retinoblastoma is an eye cancer that begins in the retina.

Hematology

Hematology is the branch of biology. Hematology is the medical field that deals with the treatment of blood disorders and cancers, such as hemophilia, leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia. Hematologists and hematopathologists are medical professionals who specialize in illnesses of the blood and its components.