Explain how an inherited mutation can have different impacts on future offspring depending on which parent passed on the mutation.

What is a mutation? How does a mutation lead to an altered phenotype? Describe two specific types of mutations.

Will insurance companies be able to deny coverage or even treatment of illnesses that can now be revealed through in utero genetic testing?

How might a point mutation in DNA affect the phenotype. How the genome is expressed in the organism? (Please explain this at the molecular level).

Do people look differently upon those afflicted with mental illness if we have a perspective grounded in an understanding that this is a genetic diagnosis?  How so?

How can mutations cause changes to the traits? Explain using the following steps:1- DNA 2- Gene 3- Protein 4- Traits We need one explanation for the normal side and one for the mutation side.   Can you explain in a few sentences how the change in the structure of the gene affects the function of the corn plant?

Which gene  is inherited from the father only?

Albinism occurs when cells cannot chemically synthesize pigment molecules. This occurs because the genes encoding the proteins that catalyze those synthesis reactions have sustained mutations. Based on this description, briefly explain whether you think mutations that cause albinism would be more likely to be dominant or recessive.

. Usually, the deletion of a gene results in a recessive mutation. Explain how the deletion of an imprinted genecan be a dominant mutation

Explain why conditional alleles are important when we want to study lethal mutations.