ch 14 - forms of inheritance Flashcards
mutation def
any change in the DNA
autosomal dominant def
only takes 1 copy to have the trait
ex: huntingtons, hypercholesterolemia, breast cancer
autosomal recessive def
need 2 copies of allele to express trait
ex: CF, CKU, taysachs, albinism
x-linked dominant def
all daughters of affected male will have trait, all sons of a homozygous affected female will have trait
ex: fragile X
x-linked recessive def
all sons of affected female and 1/2 sons of a carrier female will express the trait; all daughters of affected male will be carriers
ex: hemophilia, color blindness, DMD
do mitochondria have double-stranded DNA? what is it called?
yes; mtDNA
mitochondrial trait def
passes only from the mother because the sperm’s mitochondria is in the tail which disintegrates during fertilization
affected female passes to all children, affected males do not to any
ex: mitochondrial myopathy
mtDNA (maternal inheritance) def
mother gives trait to all children, males won’t pass it on
to determine pattern of inheritance in pedigree for sex-linked trait
if there are way more males than females affected
if child is different from both parents-
label child homozygous recessive and parents heterozygous
if child is shaded and parents are not-
pedigree is tracing autosomal recessive trait
if parents are shaded and child is not-
pedigree is tracing autosomal dominant trait
genetic anticipation def
onset of symptoms and severity increases with successive generations. due to genes where the number of triplets increase when passed to child (trinucleotide repeats)
ex: huntington’s disease, fragile X, myotonic dystrophy
in genetic anticipation, the more repeats-
the earlier the onset and the more severe the disease
which trinucleotide repeats in huntington’s?
CAG