GENETIC ANALYSIS: INTEGRATED - ACCESS
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Chapter 17, Problem 18P
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Pedigree given in which many members of family show symptoms of mitochondrial disease MERRF. Analyze the chance of
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In sexually reproducing organisms like mammals, the egg cell usually destroys the sperm after fertilization. The contribution from a diploid zygote is only haploid set of chromosomes. The Fetus receives other the cellular components from the mother’s side (Egg). Thus, the diseases related to mitochondria are maternally inherited. Mitochondrial disease is not passed to the next generation from the paternal side.
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The following pedigree shows the inheritance of a mutation that causes the mitochondrial disease MERFF. Below each individual who carries the mutation is the level of
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Which of the following statements likely explain this observation? (Select all correct answers.)
Individual 1.1 is heteroplasmic for the mutation that causes MERFF
Individual 1.1 is homoplasmic for the mutation that causes MERFF
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Is individual I-2 most likely homozygous or heterozygous? Why? Explain.
Chapter 17 Solutions
GENETIC ANALYSIS: INTEGRATED - ACCESS
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