Which inheritance is Uniparental?

Q: How can epistasis explain incomplete penetrance?

A: Penetrance in genetic terms refers to the ratio of individuals that carry a specific allele of a…

Q: What is Extrachromosomal inheritance?

A: Inheritance is the process by which this genetic information present in the genes is passed on from…

Q: What is the example of  maternal inheritance?

A: Maternal inheritance is a form of inheritance where the traits of the offspring are maternal in…

Q: What is Biparental inheritance?

A: Genes carry coded genetic information in the form of specific nucleotide sequences. This specific…

Q: Can this trait be passed to offspring?

A: The DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the hereditary unit of an organism. It consists of purines and…

Q: Briefly explain the polygenic inheritance ?

A: Inheritance is the transmission of attributes or information from one generation or cell to the…

Q: is an attached earlobe a dominant or recessive trait?

A: Answer: Introduction: Attached earlobes and free earlobes both are representative demonstrate the…

Q: Which is an example of extranuclear inheritance?

A: Inheritance is a basic principle of genetics, which helps in understanding how traits transmit from…

Q: what are the genotypes of the offspring?

A: Genetics is a branch of biology that tells about genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living…

Q: What causes incomplete dominance?

A: A gene is the physical and functional unit of heredity. The alternate forms of gene are referred to…

Q: What are the  patterns of inheritance?

A: Inheritance includes the process by which the offspring of an organism becomes predisposed to the…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 16 can survive?

A: due to nondisjunction of chromosomes in maternal meiosis I stage, there are high chances of more…

Q: Explain why Down syndrome is more common in infants born to women older than 35 years of age?

A: A genetic disorder characterized by abnormal cell division in child resulting in extra (whole or…

Q: What is an example of Extrachromosomal inheritance?

A: Inheritance is the process by which this genetic information present in the genes is passed on from…

Q: What is mitochondrial inheritance?

A: Mitochondria are a type of an organelle present in a cell. It is primarily responsible for the…

Q: What is Codominance inheritance?

A: The genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of genes, genetic variation and…

Q: Explain the Polygenic inheritance. ?

A: Genes are the basis of inheritance in all living organisms. Genes are sequences of DNA located…

Q: What is inherited?

A: Inheritance is the process by which a cell or organism acquires the genetic information from the…

Q: What is the chromosome theory of inheritance?

A: Genetic inheritance is a phenomenon that deals with the transfer of characteristics from one…

Q: What is the difference between extrachromosomal and delayed chromosomal inheritance?

A: Usually the genes are the hereditary units of life. The genes are present in the nucleus and from…

Q: What are chromosomal disorders?

A: The chromosomes are thread-like structure situated inside the nucleus of plant and animal cells.…

Q: What is a down syndrome?

A: Humans are diploid organisms,i.e., humans will have two copies for each chromosome in the cells. One…

Q: If a father is unaffected by an X-linked condition and the mother is a carrier, what is the…

A: Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the study of heredity and variations. Gregor…

Q: What is the most common chromosomal disorder?

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Q: What causes Extrachromosomal inheritance?

A: Inheritance or heredity is passing-on one trait form the parents to the progeny by either asexual or…

Q: Who had proposed the chromosomal theory of the inheritance?

A: Inheritance is the basic principle of genetics that explains how the characteristics are passed from…

Q: explain the autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance?

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Q: What are the two types of twins and how do they arise?

A: The period from conception to birth is called pregnancy. When an egg is fertilized by a sperm, the…

Q: What is the maternal inheritance?

A: Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with inheritance and variation. A gene is a section of…

Q: What are the sex-linked disorders that are inheritable?

A: The X and Y chromosomes are defined as the sex chromosomes in humans. A female has two X…

Q: Maternal influence is considered a transient inheritance, explain?

A: Inheritance in genetics is referred to as a phenomenon which involves the transfer of genetic…

Q: Is blood type an example of pleiotropy?

A: Pleiotropy is a condition in which a single gene controls multiple phenotype characteristics or…

Q: How does maternal inheritance work?

A: The nucleus of the cell carries the genome of the cell, the gene that is transmitted from the…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 17 can survive?

A: Disease:   When an organism’s body system does not work properly or any organ affects by viruses,…

Q: Describe what  is maternal inheritance? Which characters show this type of inheritance?

A: Maternal inheritance- Maternal inheritance or non-mendelian inheritance may be a pattern of…

Q: What are the complex patterns of inheritance?

A: Some traits ,unlike discrete trait of Mendel's studies, display a range of phenotypes that cannot be…

Q: Is the inheritance autosomal or sex-linked?

A: The genes are located on the specific region of the DNA. Genes determine the phenotypic…

Q: How does quantitative inheritance work?

A: The classical Mendelian traits are quantitative in nature which means the traits which are easily…

Q: What does A Vertical Pattern of Inheritance Indicates?

A: The study of genetic variations, heredity, and genes is called genetics.

Q: What are the  symptoms of chromosomal abnormalities?

A: The chromosomal abnormalities can be categorized into two types that are structural and numerical.…

Q: (a) During which division of meiosis do Mendel's rules of Segregation and Independent assortment…

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Q: Why are X-linked recessive disorders never passedfrom a father to a son?

A: A genetic characteristic or disorder can be handed down from parent to kid via mutations in a gene…

Q: What is the difference between maternal inheritance and maternal effect?

A: The study of genetic variations, heredity, and genes is called genetics.

Q: Explain the extranuclear inheritance ?

A: Non-mendelian inheritance is a type of inheritance in which a trait was transmitted from parent to…

Q: Does the maternal genotype contain zygotic genes?

A: The zygotic genes are genes that are transcribed in the embryonic nuclei developed following…

Q: What is the probability of obtaining a triply recessive individualfrom the parents ?

A: Introduction  Sir Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of Genetics. He was the pioneer scientist who…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 13 can survive?

A: Trisomy 13 or Patau syndrome occurs when 3 copies of the chromosome-13 are present in each cell of…

Q: What is uniparental disomy and how does it arise?

A: DNA is the genetic material in most living organisms. It is the information hub of the cell that…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 18 can survive?

A: Trisomy is a rare genetic condition with three extra copies of chromosomes instead of two copies…

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.