Q: What is genetypic and phenotypic ration?
A: SOME BASIC INFORMATION BUSED IN GENETICS :- HETEROZYGOUS - Every gene has two characters one being…
Q: How do geneticists know whether a particular trait is caused by the alleles of one gene or by two…
A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present in the DNA. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer of…
Q: Using the following single letter gene designations. R - dominant allele for purple colored kernel r…
A: Genotype: It is a specific set of genes which is passed by an individual organism or cell.…
Q: What is the name for the situation where a single genetic locus influences multiple traits? Group of…
A: A locus, like a genetic street address, is the precise physical position of a gene or other DNA…
Q: What is a dimorphism? A trait with two distinct forms originating from the interaction of two…
A: In genetics and natural environment we see many organisms having different traits within a…
Q: What findings led geneticists to postulate the multiple- factor hypothesis that invoked the idea of…
A: In biology, the gene is the primary base of heredity. It is the summation of the sequence of the…
Q: When you interlace your fingers, your left thumb falls over your right thumb. So you have the…
A: In dominant-recessive conditions, the dominant phenotype masks the recessive phenotype, hence 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: Which of the following represents an organism that is homozygous dominant for a trait? rr…
A: Mendel uncovered the fundamental laws of heredity. His experiments demonstrated that the inheritance…
Q: How can there be more than one possible genotype for an observed phenotype
A: A genotype is a set of heritable genes in an organism that are transferred from parents to…
Q: Why is this factor essential for the dominant allele to “take over” the gene pool?
A: Discoverers of this genetic equilibrium (Hardy) developed this HW equation to show that the dominant…
Q: What is the percentage of the total number of gene copies the allele accounts for?
A: Step 1 Allele frequency refers to how common an allele is in a population. Allele frequency can be…
Q: How do the terms gene and allele, as used here, relate to the concepts of locus and gene pair?
A: Reproduction is one of the most important and basic attributes for all individuals living on the…
Q: What is a gene with only one common, wild-type allele?
A: The coding region of the gene is known as allele. Wild-type alleles are the original form of the…
Q: In guinea pigs, an allele for rough fur (R) is dominant over an allele for smooth fur (r), and an…
A: A gene is carried by the gametes of the parents and it is expressed in the offspring. The…
Q: How can one use a pedigree chart to hypothesize how a certain condition is transmitted? Can a…
A: An individual's genotype determines his or her phenotype. The genotype is established by the alleles…
Q: What is the main difference between a homologous trait and an analogous trait?
A: Evolution is the process by which an organism inherits or adapts favourable characteristics that…
Q: In some genes, like blood type, two alleles are expressed at the same time. What do we call this?…
A: Gene usually function or express themselves singly or individually. But many cases were seen by…
Q: To what does the term allele refer? Group of answer choices a separate gene at another location on…
A: Gene is the functional unit of DNA. DNA is composed of genes with triplet codons. Genes are the unit…
Q: In garden peas, one pair of alleles controls the height of the plant, and a second pair of alleles…
A: Dominant allele The allele which mask or override the character of other gene which present in the…
Q: In bears fur colour can be either yellow or tan, and is determined by two alleles of the C gene. A…
A: A genetic trait is considered dominant if it is expressed in a person even in its single copy. While…
Q: What is a test-cross? Why might a geneticist need to do a test-cross and how are the results used to…
A: A test cross is done to find out the genotype of the individual and whether it is homozygous or…
Q: What is the difference between a locus and an allele? What is the difference between genotype and…
A: Genetic is the branch of science that deals with genetic material like genome, genes, DNA, and…
Q: What are genes with more than one common allele?
A: Genes are the basic structural and functional unit of heredity. They carry coded genetic information…
Q: In genetics, the dash symbol (–) is a “wild card” that stands for either the dominant allele or the…
A: The three laws of genetics were given by Gregor John Mendel. These laws are: Law of dominance Law…
Q: A woman heterzygous for color blindness (an X-linked recessive allele) marries a man with normal…
A: Color blindness is inherited as a recessive trait on the X chromosome. This is known as X-linked…
Q: Which of the following statements describes the multifactual inheritance in genetics? A. One locus…
A: Introduction The passing on of traits from parents to their offspring is known as heredity, also…
Q: What are multiple alleles? What is multiple allelism? Give examples to further understand the…
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Q: What are multiple alleles? Give an example?
A: An allele is the one of two or more varieties of the gene. The person will inherit two alleles for…
Q: What is the role of genes and chromosomes in the process of inheriting a specific trait?
A: Chromosome contains gene and Genes basically have the genetic information which get inherited from…
Q: What are Wild type allele and Mutant allele?
A: Alleles occur on the same locus in the homologous chromosomes of an individual and they are…
Q: Are multiple alleles, lethal alleles, and epistasis common or rare in humans? Why?
A: Multiple alleles refer to the different alleles of a single gene. It can be one or more than one.…
Q: What is genetic drift?
A: Introduction In this question we will discuss about the genetic drift.
Q: What is the difference between a gene and an allele? Identify the following terms as either a…
A: Sir Gregor Mendel was a priest and a teacher who did the famous hybridization experiment on garden…
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: What data show that "Blending" between the phenotypes of two parents is not a correct view of…
A: The answer is: Some traits skip a generation and then return
Q: What is the probability that an individual who is heterozygous for a given allele will pass that…
A: Law of dominance: A dominant allele can show its characters in the phenotype both in homozygous as…
Q: Fur color is codominant in cows. A roan cow has a fur color of orange and white. What are the…
A: Non- Mendelian inheritance is an inheritance in which characters are not seperated out on the basis…
Q: What is the difference between duplicate recessive epistasis and recessive epistasis? Give an…
A: Epistasis is defined as the process of gene interaction in which one gene mask the phenotypic…
Q: Which allele is an example of a loss-of-function allele?
A: The mutation of a gene or allele can produce mutant allelic forms that either produce a reduced…
Q: Which of the following statements is true? The Creeper gene in chicken follows Mendelian…
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Q: Roan color in cattle is the result of incomplete dominance between red and white color alleles (R/r)…
A: Incomplete dominance is when a dominant allele, does not completely mask the effects of a recessive…
Q: What is the unusual phenomenon in which the expression of an allele depends on the parent that…
A: A gene is a unit of genetic material and alleles are the alternative form of genes present on the…
Q: Are these alleles common or rare in humans?
A: Allele is a variant form of gene, humans can be diploid if they have 2 allele, with each allele…
Q: Why can a protein be used as evidence for common ancestry?
A: Complete life on earth emerged from a solitary common ancestor, & our genes mirror this common…
Q: According to Amar J. S. Klar, is there a such thing as “left handedness”? What is the preferred…
A: Introduction:- The basis of right- vs. left-hand-use preference in humans has been debated for a…
Q: How is maternal inheritance different from the segregation Mendel observed for nuclear genes
A: The maternal inheritance is different from the segregation that Mendel observed for nuclear genes.…
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…
What is the term for situations in which a single functional allele of a gene is unable to mask an allele that deletes the gene completely?
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- How are alleles of particular gene differ from each other?explain its significance?Why amorphic alleles are usually recessive to wild-type alleles?Genes A and B are 6 map units apart, and A and C are 4 map units apart. Which gene is in the middle if B and C are 10 map units apart? Which is in the middle if B and C are 2 map units apart?