Which of the following best explains how individuals who inherit phenylketonuria alleles can avoid the symptoms of this disease (mental impairment, foul smelling urine)?

Q: What is the cause of Wolf-Hirschhorn and make sure to explain specifically why the karyotype of your…

A: Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body. The major…

Q: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive disease that results from a defect in an enzyme that…

A: Phenylketonuria is an inborn error of metabolism which happened due to decreased or low metabolism…

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: Does this statement is a  example of a phenocopy? Explain your reasoning. Q. Phenylketonuria results…

A: Phenylketonuria is a genetic disorder characterized by the deficiency or absence of the enzyme…

Q: How we can know the rare inherited genetic disorders by the incidence ? Explain

A: Inheritance is the process of transmitting the traits from parent to offspring. Traits of an…

Q: Describe the most common molecular mechanism for recessively inherited human genetic diseases such…

A: Cystic fibrosis is an inherited life threatening disorder which damages lungs and digestive system.…

Q: Albinism is characterized by the lack of a dark pigment called melanin in the hair, skin and eyes.…

A: Albinism is a genetic condition that affects the production of melanin. Melanin is the pigment that…

Q: hair, underdeveloped nails, and abnormally shaped eyelids. In the following pedigree, which…

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Q: Bloom's Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder due to mutations in a helicase protein. Some of…

A: Bloom syndrome is an inherited disorder characterised by low height, a sun-induced skin rash, and a…

Q: Explain the following term: Allele:

A: DNA is the genetic material present in most of the living organisms. The DNA is made up of 4…

Q: Canavan disease in an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the gene that codes for…

A: Given the day disease is an autosomal recessive disorder. We can solve this by assuming that the…

Q: In a family-based genetic study for a mental disorder called marijuana dependence, a total of 50…

A: Marijuana is widely used throughout the world. It is seen that about 50–70% of the liability to…

Q: Please answer fast Write two different partial diploid genotypes where Lac Z is produced…

A: The lactose operon is an example of inducible operon in which the expression of downstream genes…

Q: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is due to a mutation in a gene that encodesa protein called…

A: Pedigree or family tree is a representation of an individual in a family or close relatives that…

Q: Jacob and Patau Syndromes List the similarities and differences between these two syndromes. Which…

A: Jacob syndrome: Also known as XYY syndome/ XYY karyotype/ YY syndrome Patau syndrome:  Also known as…

Q: Alternate form of the same genes are called

A: The body cells contain pairs of homologous chromosomes. The two chromosomes of each pair have the…

Q: What is the genetic basis of the symptoms of Down syndrome?

A: Ans: In humans various diseases or disorders are caused by chromosomal aberrations or mutation in…

Q: The pedigree here shows the inheritance of a human disease knownas familial hypercholesterolemia.…

A: Pedigree analysis can be described as the record of a special genetical character or a disorder for…

Q: An example of a single gene disorder is O a. Cri-du-chat Syndrome O b. Phenylketournia Patou

A: Cr-du-chat Syndrome : It is a rare genetic disorder which is caused by a missing section on a…

Q: What is the most common symptom in a genetic disorder and why? Do all people exhibit this symptom of…

A: Genetic disorder is a health problem that had resulted due to one or more abnormalities of a person'…

Q: Tay-Sachs disease is caused by loss of function mutation in a gene on chromosome 15 that codes for…

A: Tay-Sachs disease is a rare inherited disorder and this is due to mutation occurring in HEX A gene…

Q: Which of the following experimental observations suggest that adisease has a genetic basis?A. The…

A: Gene is a functional unit of heredity. A gene is a sequence of nucleotides in genome that codes for…

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: A mutation on an autosome causes a particular protein to be overproduced, and the excess protein…

A: Mutations are random changes in the genome.

Q: Galactosemia is a metabolic condition, caused by a recessive allele, which prevents affected…

A: Galactosemia is a disorder of the metabolism of sugar that affects the body processes and metabolism…

Q: In people with maple syrup urine disease, the body is unable tometabolize the amino acids leucine,…

A: The maple syrup urine disorder (MSUD) is a genetic disorder that is passed on from one generation to…

Q: If two out of every seven individuals in a population carry a gene for a defective enzyme, what…

A: Given that, 2 out of every 7 individuals in a population carry a gene for defective enzyme.  Ratio…

Q: Briefly explain why the Mendelian inheritance does not apply to the inheritance of alleles in…

A: Introduction Tay-Sachs disease is a rare genetic condition that causes neurological issues in the…

Q: What causes the genetic disorder Down syndrome?

A: A disease is an abnormal condition of the body or body that does not work properly and causes a…

Q: Phenylketonuria is one of the most common recessive genetic disorders in humans. Infants with PKU…

A: Given that, phenylketonuria is one of a recessive genetic disorder characterized by the absence of…

Q: Tay–Sachs disease is caused by loss-of-function mutations ina gene on chromosome 15 that encodes a…

A: Tay–Sachs disease can be defined as a hereditary condition that causes nerve cells present in the…

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: Which of the following genetic diseases is/are inherited as an autosomal recessive trait:…

A: A genetic trait that can be inherited from parent to child is termed as autosomal recessive…

Q: The allele of the gene responsible for the lung disorder, cystic fibrosis rose to prominence in…

A: Hardy-weingberg says that "In absence of forces that change gene frequenceis, relative frequences of…

Q: In humans, the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) gene involved in sugar metabolism is…

A: When a gene mutation (allele) is found on a sex chromosome (allosome) rather than a non-sex…

Q: Person A and person B are both worried they are going to develop a neurodegenerative disease.…

A: Parkinson's disease is the neurodegenerative disease which is caused by the imbalance in…

Q: hat is the genetic basis and phenotype for each of the following disorders: a) Edwards syndrome b)…

A: Ploidy: When the number of chromosomes changes, ploidy also changes. There are two types of Ploidy-…

Q: Why Some hypermorphic alleles encode overactiveproteins?

A: A mutation is any alteration in the sequence of DNA. It may be caused due to error in replication or…

Q: What are two possible explanations for why the same genotype (DNA) can result in different…

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

Q: Galton’s traits are readily observed in everyday life. What did Galton discover?

A: Mendel proposed the laws of inheritance based on his results of the hybridization experiments

Q: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive disease that results from a defect in an enzyme that…

A: Genetic disease is caused due to chromosomal aberrations or mutation in the specific genes. Most of…

Q: A man with the sickle cell trait married a woman with the sickle cell trait. Determine the…

A: Individuals having HbA allele show normal cells in homozygous form and in heterozygous form of…

Q: Pompe disease is a glycogen storage disorder caused by a lack of ⍺-glucosidase, the enzyme that…

A: It is given that the disease is a glycogen storage disorder in which the Alpha glucosidase enzyme…

Q: Sickle cell anemia is a disease that is caused by a mutation in the gene that produces hemoglobin.…

A: HbA allele encodes normal hemoglobin. Whereas HbS allele encodes sickle cell hemoglobin.

Q: The inheritance pattern of a rare form of Xeroderma pigmentosum is exhibited in the pedigree shown…

A: Foundation Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare autosomal recessive (passive) disorder portrayed by…

Q: In humans, the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) gene involved in sugar metabolism is…

A: Genes are the basic unit of heredity. One gene has two alleles. Each allele is contributed by each…

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.