Why most loss-of-function mutant alleles are recessive to wild-type alleles

Q: Why the allele for cystic fibrosis is recessive

A: Cystic fibrosis belongs to the category of a genetic disorder and the symptoms include fatty stool,…

Q: State Mendels law of independent assortment.

A: The type of biological inheritance that follows the principle of Gregor Mendel is more specifically…

Q: Why it is advantageous to have 2 alleles per trait.

A: The diploid organisms contain two alleles of a single gene. The alleles are variants of a single…

Q: Transmission of information from cells to cell or from parent to progeny that is not encoded in DNA.…

A: Inheritance is the process of transfer of information from parents to offspring via the genetic…

Q: Understanding x - linked dominant/ recessive inheritance patters

A: X-linked inheritance is specifically a sex linked inheritance where the trait inheritance within the…

Q: An allele in a

A: In population genetics, the Hardy–Weinberg principle, also known as the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium,…

Q: Complete dominance at both gene pairs but the first gene when dominant is cpistatic to the other.…

A: Introduction :- The effect of one allele in a heterozygous genotype entirely covers the effect of…

Q: Why some dominant mutant alleles are antimorphic

A: Mutations are the alterations or the changes that occur in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Mutagens…

Q: (a) What pattern of transmission is most consistent with this pedigree? (1) autosomal recessive, (2)…

A: Pedigree  A family tree or chart that represents a person's genetic family history by symbols and…

Q: pedigree analysis of any kind of pattern of inheritance and explanation

A: Pedigree is a representation in the form of a diagram or family tree of inheritance of genetic…

Q: the theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics and noted that this theory is no longer…

A: The theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics is also termed as Lamarckism or Lamarck…

Q: good review on mendelian genetics relating to his study of pea plants and why he

A: Gregar John Mendel is known as the father of genetics was a monk and taught natural Sciences in the…

Q: Mendelian Genetics Non-Mendelian Genetics -Patterns of inheritance in which traits are m The way in…

A: Answer. Mendelian genetic inheritance 1. Mendelian genetics is the way in which genes and their…

Q: The differences between the genotype,genome, and gene pool; why a genotype cannever be composed of…

A: The entire genetic material present in a cell of an organism is referred to as the genome. The…

Q: State Mendel’s law of segregation and law of independentassortment

A: Answer- According to the mendel gametes segregate at the time of gamete formation and this condition…

Q: the mode of Inhe Itance for each of these pedigree dominant, x-linked recessive, x-linked dominant,…

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Q: version of a pedigree analysis chart that would demonstrate the patteron of an X-linked dominant…

A: Pedigree analysis is the symbolic representation of the presence or absence of traits in a…

Q: Dominant and recessive alleles, the difference between homozygous andheterozygous individuals, and…

A: Mendel, Johann Gregor (1822-1884) is the Father of Genetics. He discovered the fundamental laws of…

Q: Why a loss or an excess in genetic material leads to the expression of an abnormal phenotype

A: The translocation happens when a piece of one chromosome is servers and connects to another…

Q: Why Relatively Small Number ofGenes Can Produce EnormousPhenotypic Complexity

A: this question can be addressed in multiple ways, one angle that is relevent to look at is how some…

Q: phenotypic screens.

A: Phenotype: Any measurable characteristic or distinctive trait possessed by an organism is called The…

Q: How long did it take Mendel to complete the experiment ?

A: Introduction: Gregor Mendel is known as the father of genetics. he conducted experiments on pea…

Q: Autosomal Recessive Inheritance (trait only expressed if homozygous recessive)An albino man (nn)…

A: Autosomal recessive trait only gets expressed when they are present in homozygous recessive…

Q: Mendel genetics and how meiosis plays into the law of segration and law of independent assortment in…

A: The indirect process of cell division in which the chromosomes of parent cells divide once but the…

Q: phenylketonuria, which is an autosomal recessive mutant allele. The father is homozygous for this…

A: Phenylketonuria is an autosomal recessive mutant allele,  lets say, Homozygous allele for…

Q: the causal chain between genetics and social and red-headed children

A: Causal chain: its a sequence of events in chain in which any one of the events leads to the…

Q: name of Old theory of how offspring got their traits, prior to Mendel

A: Traits is a distinguishing quality or characteristic,  typically one belonging to a person.

Q: The assertion t the inherited factors are indispensable in determining the appearance of an…

A: The DNA in cells contains the hereditary data for each person, counting the physical highlights that…

Q: The features of the garden pea that made it a basic principles of inheritance •good organism for…

A: Introduction Inheritance is the way by which genes or traits from one generation are passed on to…

Q: Analysis of pedigrees to determine the probability of someoneinheriting a trait , indicate whether…

A: Genetics is a branch of biology. It deals with the variation and heredity of organisms. Genetics…

Q: Number of offspring resulting from a Punnett square that are homozygous recessive when a…

A: Normally genes follow mendelian pattern of inheritance like dominance and recessive. Just to explain…

Q: Why a recessive trait can skip a generation,

A: The genes are the primary unit of life. The nucleotide sequence of the genes are responsible for…

Q: Why inversion heterozygotes produce few if any recombinant progeny.

A: Inversion is a chromosomal rearrangement in which a chromosomal segment is reversed end to end,…

Q: how genotype and phenotype are related

A: The genotype of an organism is the sum total of all of its genes. Phenotype is the observable…

Q: how combinations of variants (rather than individual variants considered one at a time) can…

A: Genetic variation refers to the measure of the variation that exists in the genetic makeup of…

Q: Incomplete dominance And must show the Punnet square

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Q: Why law of segregation is known as law of purity of gametes.

A: Gregor Mendel was the scientist who worked in the field of molecular biology and genetics. These…

Q: Examples of genomic imprinting other than insulin-like growth factor 2

A: Genetic imprinting can be defined as when one copy of a gene is silenced due to its parental origin.…

Q: how An inversion can affect phenotype

A: Mutation is the sudden heritable changes that occur in the DNA sequences due to error while copying…

Q: how Three-Point Crosses Provide Fasterand More Accurate Mapping

A: Answer: Introduction: Determination of the loci of three genes in genome of organisms is called as a…

Q: x-linked

A: When one copy of X Chromosome is inactive and silence its expression is said to be x linked…

Q: Multiple Alleles:

A: Given: Gene mutations may produce many different alleles of a gene. Some genes may have as many as…

Q: How three-point crosses verify Sturtevant’s map of the Drosophila X chromosome.

A: The earliest cell division and the development of the drosophila flies were studied by Alfred Henry…

Q: Transmission of information from cells to cell or from parent to progeny that is not encoded in DNA.…

A: The DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid contain the genetic information that is transmitted from parents to…

Q: How genes arise by duplication and divergence

A: Genes arise by means of several mechanisms which include duplication and divergence, transposable…

Q: All possible offspring pheotypes and genotypes in a punnet square for genotypes

A: An organism's genotype is the set of genes that it carries. An organism's phenotype is all of its…

Q: "A pedigree for one form of human color blindness" Why ?

A: Color vision deficit is a term that refers to a group of disorders that impact color perception. The…

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.