What is the idea that parental traits become mixed and forever changed in offspring?

Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of law of dominance?

A: The Law of dominance states that in the inheritance of heterozygous genes, the dominant gene is…

Q: What characteristics do you expect to see in a trait that exhibits anticipation?

A: The trait is a characteristic feature of an organism which is present in an inherent form in a…

Q: If self-fertilization causes lower fitness than cross-fertilization, under what environmental…

A: The cycle of a combination of the female gamete, the ovum or egg, and the male gamete delivered in…

Q: In maternal effect, if the female parent exhibits the trait, all of the offspring will also exhibit…

A: genetics is the branch of biology which deals with the inheritance and genetic makeup of individuals…

Q: What is the difference between and Genotypic Trait and a Phenotypic Trait. What do each of them…

A: Genetic material is nothing but the sequence of nucleic acids which is called as DNA. It contains…

Q: How do we know whether an organism expressing a dominant trait is homozygous or heterozygous?

A: Genetics is a branch of the biology involved in the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity…

Q: How is probability used in analyzing patterns of inheritance?

A: Inheritance is defined as the process by which genetic information is passed on or transferred from…

Q: What do you mean by dominant gene? Explain with help of example.

A: Genes are portions of DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid], and they have the ability to code for a…

Q: What are individuals having two different alleles for a single trait?

A: The alternate forms of gene are referred to allele. An allele determines the hereditary…

Q: In four-o'-clock plants, the allele for red flowers is incompletely dominant to the allele for white…

A: Incomplete dominance means when one allele is not completely showing it's own character when present…

Q: What is allele frequency?

A: Allele frequency or gene frequency is the frequency of an Allele at a particular locus in a…

Q: What are blood group and genotype in co-dominance?

A: Blood is made up of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in a liquid called plasma.…

Q: What are the alleles in the parental gametes? What are the alleles in the double crossover gametes?…

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Q: Why are some alleles dominant and some recessive?

A: A short-portion of the DNA is termed as a gene. The genes are the essential functions as well as…

Q: What is the relationship between phenotypic and genetic

A: Genotype of an organisms can be defined as the sum of all it's genes.It is the genetic makeup of an…

Q: Why are some alleles dominant to other alleles?

A: In 1865, Gregor Mendel an Austrian scientist experimented on garden pea hybrids and published his…

Q: How do someone know a trait is sex linked?

A: Sex linked is defined as a trait in which a gene is present on a sex chromosome. This is influenced…

Q: What determines whether 2 alternative alleles of a single gene show complete dominance, incomplete…

A: Gregor Mendel gave the model of inheritance while working over the pea plant. An allele is the…

Q: What are Complete Dominance, Codominance and Incomplete dominance

A: An allele is a genetic variant and some genes have various different forms. These are located on the…

Q: How is incomplete dominance differentiated from co-dominance? In incomplete dominance, both alleles…

A: Any gene has two alleles pairs viz. Dominant or Recessive. The allele which gets expressed in the…

Q: What are Sex-influenced traits?

A: The traits are the characteristics determined by the genes. The traits are affected by the genes,…

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: If there are two genes (G and B) that determine the flower color of one plant (purple is dominant…

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Q: does dominance have anything to do with frequency?

A: The allele and genotype frequencies is very much important in in calculation of Hardy weinberg…

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 multiple alleles? What is multiple allelism? Give examples to further understand the…

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Q: The round pea seed trait is dominant over the wrinkled pea seed trait. If the phenotype of a pea…

A: Gregor Johann Mendel performed monohybrid and dihybrid crosses in pea plant. He is more popularly…

Q: What are recessive conditions? What are dominant conditions? Why are recessive conditions more…

A: Individuals receive two versions of each gene, known as alleles, from each parent. If the alleles…

Q: How is phenotype affected by complete dominance, incomplete dominance and codominance?

A: Phenotype is defined as the traits of an organism that can be observed from its outer appearance.…

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

A: Introduction  : sex linked gene - when  genes present on sex chromosome they are known as sex linked…

Q: What are continuous traits also called?

A: Phenotypes are the set of observable traits/characteristics of an individual. Phenotypic traits are…

Q: Two genes can interact in which several ways to determine a single trait?

A: Genetic Interaction – The process in which two or more genes interact with each other in order to…

Q: Consider the following case of blending inheritance. A population of plants starts out with an equal…

A: The population of plants starts out with an equal number of plants that are 40 cm high and plants…

Q: What is a gene interaction in which the effects of an allele at one gene hide the effects of alleles…

A: Genes come in pairs and are responsible for the inheritance and expression of the associated…

Q: Why is the influence of environment significant to phenotype?

A: The effect of environment on a particular genotype to express another type of phenotype is called…

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: What does co-dominance mean? Explain how co-dominance is different from incomplete dominance

A: Co-dominance: Is a type of relationship between 2 alleles, where characteristics denoted by both the…

Q: What determines which traits will be passed on to the next generation in the greatest frequency?

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

Q: What is a trait for which symptoms are not present at birth and manifests themselves later in life?

A: Genetics is the study of inheritance of genes among the generations that deals with heredity and…

Q: List and briefly describe the three processes that lead to variation in offspring with the same…

A: The genetic variation is caused by different factors like random mating, random fertilization,…

Q: Where are sex linked genes predominantly

A: Chromosomes are thread-like structures present within the nucleus of both animal and plant cells.…

Q: Define imprinting

A: Answer: Introduction: In biology, Imprinting is a learning process, occurs particularly young age,…

Q: Difference between law of dominance and law of segregation?

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

Q: Co-dominance: In a flower shop a costumer wants to have a 50:50 ratio of flower with pure white…

A: Introduction: The mechanism in which the parental traits are copied into the offspring belonging to…

Q: he term allele mean?

A: Gene can be defined as the basic physical and functional unit of heredity.

Q: what are factors that control traits are called?

A: The traits in an organism are determined by the genotypic characters and these characters influence…

Q: How many phenotypes are possible among the offspring What is the probability of getting DD…

A: A trait is a characteristic feature that is unique to particular an individual . In this case ,…

Q: If you have a pea plant with a dominant phenotype (like purple flowers) why might you NOT know its…

A: Genes are the specific codes of these amino acids which produces a protein and alleles is the…

Q: Explain the term of co-dominance?

A: In genetics, the codominance can be described as a condition during which neither allele can mask…

Q: What are comparision of law of dominance,law of segregation?

A: Inheritance is the process of how the genetic information are transmitted from the parents to their…

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.