Would the genomic conflict hypothesis be likely to explain genomic imprinting for genes involved in adult memory? Why or why not?

Q: A scientist does an experiment in which she removes the offspring of rats from their mother at birth…

A: The phenotypes that are inherited without any changes in the DNA are studied under epigenetics. This…

Q: Using coat color in mice and the development of female honeybees as examples, explain how dietary…

A: The inheritance of phenotypic characteristics without any changes at the genetic level is called…

Q: What is Epigenetic Memory?

A: Genome is the set of genetic material. It is a collection of all genes present in an organism. Genes…

Q: How Do Genetic Maps Correlate with Physical Reality?

A: Genetic map and physical maps are the terms related to genes present n chromosomes. A gene is a…

Q: Explain why Epigenetic Traits Are Heritable ?

A: An inheritance pattern during which a modification to a gene regulation or body alters organic…

Q: Discuss the similarities and differences of phenotypic variations that are caused by epigenetic gene…

A: Genetics is a branch of science that deals in the study of genes, heredity, and genetic variation of…

Q: If you were to design an epigenetic experiment, how would you design one? Keep in mind a good…

A: Epigenetics is the gene-level alterations that affect the functioning of DNA without actually…

Q: Why are diseases due to microsatellite amplification, even though they have a monogenic pattern of…

A: The classical inheritance is the type of inheritance pattern in which mendelian laws are followed…

Q: What mechanisms are thought to be responsible for the inheritance of epigenetic information?

A: Epigenetics refers to the study of the stable heritable changes which takes place in the genome of…

Q: Explain about the epigenetic differences ?

A: Introduction Expression of gene is highly under control by various mechanisms such as histone…

Q: What is the difference between silencing genes by imprintingand silencing by epigenetic…

A: Genomic imprinting is a process of silencing genes by the process of DNA methylation. The…

Q: Why does X inactivation occur in female mammals?

A: A Chromosome is an entire chain of Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) with stabilizing proteins. The DNA is…

Q: Epigenetics: Explain how two genetically identical twins are not really identical.

A: The monozygotic twins formed due to the splitting of a fertilized egg are also known as identical…

Q: What is the role played by biophysical properties in mechanisms of morphogenesis?

A: *Thermal properties are Density, Pressure, Temperature, Specific Volume  Compressibility etc. *…

Q: Some people have said that epigenetics provides genes with a memory. Explain how epigenetics allows…

A: There are many epigenetic mechanisms independent of genetic mechanisms that regulate gene expression…

Q: Genomic imprinting, where gene expression is based on the sex of the transmitting parent,…

A: Question - Genomic imprinting , where genes expression is based on the sex of the transmitting…

Q: Epigenetics has been described as “inheritance, but not as we know it.” Do you think this is a good…

A: Epigenetics is the process of inheritance by mechanisms other than through the DNA sequence of…

Q: Explain about the Identification and Cloning of the Huntington Gene ?

A: Genetics is a part of science worried about the investigation of genes, genetic variety, and…

Q: What type of epigenetic change is responsible for genomic imprinting?

A: Epigenetic refers to the patterns of inheritance that involve the alterations in characteristics…

Q: What is the "common disease, common variant hypothesis for the genetic basis of mental health…

A: Disease is an abnormal unhealthy condition produced in a plant due to defective nutrition, heredity,…

Q: Using coat color in mice and the development of female honeybees as examples, explain how dietary…

A: Epigenetics is a state of gene expression where there are no changes in the DNA sequence but the…

Q: Why is it that mutation, acting alone, has little effect on gene frequency?

A: BASIC INFORMATION MUTATION  it is sudden or discontinuous variation these changes occurs in the…

Q: Is Alzheimer’s disease always linked to a mutation in a single gene? Provide evidence that supports…

A: Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative  disease characterized by for formation and deposition of…

Q: Why is neurospora an important genetic tool?

A: Neurospora is an ascomycetes fungus which has been used as a biological tool in order to understand…

Q: What role does induction play in development?

A: Induction is the developmental process by which specific tissue types affect the development of…

Q: X inactivation explains the large color patches in calico cat fur and the smaller patches in…

A: The calico and tortoiseshell cats are named for their cat coloring.  The cat genes are usually…

Q: Base on your knowledge of DNA, chromosomes and epigenetics and upon examining the picture below,…

A: Epigenetic modification is the changes in chromatin structure which can result in repression or…

Q: What is a CpG island? Where would you expect one to be located? How does the methylation of CpG…

A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present in the DNA. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer of…

Q: How is such a linear activation of Hox genes carried out on the cellular level?

A: The Hox gene determines segment identity—whether a segment of the embryo will become a component of…

Q: What is meant by epigenesis? How did Kaspar Friedrich Wolff ’s concept of epigenesis differ from the…

A: Epigenesis is the development of an animal or plants from the egg or spore via the processes in…

Q: How frequently are environmentally induced changes in chromatin transmitted from one generation to…

A: The term epigenetics is associated with the study of environment and behavior causing alterations in…

Q: Why genetic components are associated with Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases ?

A: Alzheimer and Parkinson disease are neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer disease leads to dementia.…

Q: Do genes have a role to play in epigenetics and variations in epigenetic patterns between…

A: Quality articulation (Gene expression) alludes to how frequently or when proteins are made from the…

Q: Why would a researcher be interested in over- or misexpression phenotypes?

A: Examples of phenotypes include height, wing length, and hair color. Gene expression is the most…

Q: What is the genomic conflict hypothesis for the origin of genomic imprinting?

A: Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon of inheritance which is independent of the Mendelian inheritance.…

Q: Which honeybee in Figure 21.4 (the worker or the queen) will have more copies of 5-methylcytosine in…

A: In honeybees, the nutritional privileges lead to two different developmental forms, the queen and…

Q: How does the study of maze bright and maze dull rats raised in different cages show us that…

A: Individual behavioral variations were thought to be a result of environmental, rather than genetic…

Q: Explain the molecular mechanism of imprinting.

A: The imprinting is an epigenetic procedure that signifies DNA in a sex-dependent behavior and…

Q: Based on the information from studies of the long-term effects of diet on metabolism in mice, what…

A: Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, their inheritance patterns,…

Q: how this stuttering mechanism can change the number of repeat units at theSSR locus responsible for…

A: Huntington’s disease causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain which causes the…

Q: Explain DNA methylation. How does this process influence cellular function?

A: DNA methylation is a process in which Dna bases are Methylated with the help of enzyme Methyl…

Q: Explain the Analysis of Neurospora Mutants by Beadle and Tatum ?

A: Neurospora crassa or red mould is a fungi. It can be grown easily in culture medium supplanted with…

Q: How will map units between genes controled by epigenetics influence crossing over?

A: Genetic map is referred to as the percentage of the recombinants of the alleged of two genes.…

Q: What evidence suggests that differences in monozygotic twins may be caused by epigenetic effects?

A: The Identical twins are also known as monozygotic twins, which occurs due to the result of…

Q: In the introduction to this chapter, we discussed the role of famine during early prenatal…

A: Chromosomes are long thread-like structures that carry coded genetic information in the form of DNA.…

Learning and memory

Learning is defined as a relatively permanent and irreversible adaptive change in behavior. It always results from experience. The ability of an organism to store and recall the effects, sensations, and knowledge gained through learning and experience is called memory.