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Chapter 11/12 Genetics Flashcards

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Mendel’s theory of independent assortment states that…

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Each hereditary unit is inherited separately from other hereditary units.

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A. ⬜️——–⚫️
ww. | Ww
|
—————————-
|. |. |. |. |. |
B. ⚪️—◾️ ⚫️ ◾️—⚪️ ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️
|. |
C. ◾️. |
———–
D. ⚪️. ◽️. ◾️—–⚪️
ww= wooly hair. Ww=non wooly
2.) what’s the likelihood that the progeny of D-3 and D-4 will have wooly hair ?
3.) what is the genotype of Individual B-5
4.) what is the probability that individual C-1 is Ww?

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  1. ) 50%
  2. ) ww
  3. ) 100%
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Black fur in mice (B) is dominant to brown fur (b) Short Tails (T) are dominant to long tails (t). What fraction of the progeny of the cross BbTt x BBtt with have black fur and long tails?

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1/2

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If a study of several pedigrees demonstrates that two parents express a characteristic and none of their children express it, then the trait is controlled by…

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Dominant gene

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If nondisjunction occurs during meiosis …

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One half of the resulting cells are n+1 and the other half are n-1

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a serious condition caused by a recessive allele of a gene on the human X chromosome. The patients have muscles that weaken over time because they have absent or decreased dystrophin, a muscle protein. They rarely love past their 20’s. How likely is it for a woman to have this condition?

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A woman would rarely have this condition; it is rare that an affected male would mate with a carrier female

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Which boxed area on the generalized karyotype illustration below represents a pair of autosomes?
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(1).
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(12)
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(XX)

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Both 1 and 12

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I’m cattle, roan coat color (mixed red and white hairs) occurs in the heterozygous offspring of red and white homozygotes. Which of the following crosses would produce offspring in the ratio of 1 red: 2 roan: 1 white?

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Roan x Roan

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Which of the following is a test cross? (Y means the allele’s identity is unknown)

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RyMy x rrmm

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A small region of a protein from three species is sequenced and found to be as follows:
• species X is alanine, glycine, glycine, threonine, alanine
• species Y is alanine, glycine, threonine, alanine
• species Z is alanine, valine, glycine, threonine, alanine
The difference in the amino acid sequence of species Y is most likely due to…

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A deletion

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Homologous sets of genes ABCDEF and aBCdEF are located on nonhomologous chromosomes. Crossing between them is suppressed because their locations are the result of….

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A translocation

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Homologous sets of genes ABCDEF and AEDCBF are located on homologous chromosomes. Crossing is suppressed because of….

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An inversion

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The nucleotide sequences of homologous regions of DNA of two species are AATGCCCCGTTA and AATGCCCCGCTTA. If this isn’t the result of a nucleotide base-pair addition, then is it due to…

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A gene duplication

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In cats, black fur color is caused by an X-linked allele; the other allele at this locus causes orange color. The heterozygote is tortoiseshell. What kinds of offspring would you except from the cross of a black female and an orange male?

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Tortoiseshell female; black male

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What is the mechanism for the production of genetic recombinants?

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Crossing over and independent assortment.

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You are a genetic counselor, and a couple comes to you with condemns that if they have a child together it could have hemophilia. Neither one of them had hemophilia, but the woman’s biological father did have an X-linked recessive form of hemophilia. What’s correct to tell them?

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Each of their male offspring will have a 50% chance to have hemophilia, and while the females shouldn’t have it, they will each have a 50% chance to be carriers

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D= dark leaves (dominant) 
d= light leaves (recessive) 
          D.    d. 
       D--------
         |1.      2. |
         |             |
       d 3.      4.| 
        ---------
Which plant(s) are true bred? 
Which boxes correspond to plants with dark leaves?
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  1. ) 1 and 4

2. ) 1,2,3

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Some dogs have erect ears; others have dropping ears. Some dogs bark when following a scent; others are silent. Erect ears and marking are due to dominate alleles located on different chromosomes. If two don’t rids are crossed…

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All droopy-eared, silent offspring are pure-bred

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An obstetrician knows that one of her patients is a pregnant woman whose fetus is at risk for a serious disorder that is detectable biochemically in fetus cells. The obstetrician would most reasonably offer what procedure to her patient?

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Amniocentesis or CVS

20
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A sexually reproducing animal had two unlinked genes, one for head shape, (H) and one for tail length, (T). It’s Genotype is HhTt. Which of the following genotype a is possible in a gamete from this organism?

21
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What is the genetic cross between an individual showing a dominant phenotype (but unknown genotype) and a homozygous recessive individual called?

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A testcross

22
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A woman who has blood type A, has a daughter who is blood type O positive and a son who is B negative. Rh positive is a dominate trait over Rh negative.
What is a phenotype for the father?
What is a probable genotype for the mother?
What is a possible genotype for the mother?

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  1. ) B
  2. ) I(A)irr
  3. ) I(A)i
23
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Mendel’s second law of independent assortment has its basis in what events of meiosis 1?

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Alignment of tetrads as the equator

24
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Suppose that a hemophilic male (X-linked recessive allele) and a female carrier have a no hemophilic daughter with Turner syndrome. Nondisjunction could have occurred in…

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The father only

25
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Genes are…

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  • Located on chromosomes
  • Inherited in the same way as chromosomes
  • Arranged in a linear sequence on chromosomes.
26
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Males tend to be affected in greater numbers by X-linked recessive genetic disorders than are females because…

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Males only have one X chromosome

27
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Feather color in budgies is determined by two different genes Y and B. YYBB, YyBB, or YYBb is green; yyBB or yyBb is blue; YYbb or Yybb is yellow; and yybb is white.

  1. ) two blue budgies were crossed and made 22 offspring, 5 were white. What’s the genotype a for the parents?
  2. ) what type of allele interaction is being shown here?
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  1. ) yyBb and yyBb

2. ) epistasis

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◾️---⚪️
       |
------------
◽️.  ⚫️.   ⚫️---◽️
                         |.                ^
--------------------------
⚫️.    ◾️---⚪️.    ◽️---⚪️
                 |.                  |
         ---------           ◽
         ◽️.       ⚫️️

What’s the correct inheritance pattern for this condition?

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X-Linked dominant

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Mendel’s observation of the segregation of alleles in gamete formation has its basis in what phases of cell division?

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Anaphase 1 of meiosis

30
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Mendel accounted for the observation that traits which had disappeared in the F1 generation reappeared in the F2 generation by proposing that…

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Traits can be dominant or recessive, and the recessive traits were obscured by the dominant ones in F1

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An individual who is a carrier of a genetically inherited disease…

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Doesn’t have the disease, but may have offspring with the disease

32
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What are punnett squares Used for?

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Predicting the results of genetic crosses between organisms of known genotypes

33
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The role of environmental factors on gene expression is illustrated by the…

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  • Varying plant height of genetically identical yarrow plants when grows at different elevations
  • Flower color of hydrangeas grown in soils of differing pH
  • Depression response that some persons make to very stressful situations
  • Fur pattern of Himalayan rabbits
34
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In humans, clear gender differentiation occurs, not at fertilization, but after the second month of development. What’s the first event of this differentiation?

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Activation of SRY in male embryos and masculinization of the gonads (testes)

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An achondroplastic male dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man’s father was six-feet tall and both the woman’s parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.

  1. ) how many daughters might be expected to be color-blind dwarfs?
  2. ) they have a daughter who is a dwarf with normal color vision. What is the probability that she is heterozygous for both genes?
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  1. ) none

2. ) 100%

36
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Epistasis vs Pleiotropy

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  • E: two or more genes affect one phenotype. Ex: color color of labs. One gene for pigment, one for depositing the pigment.
  • P: one gene affects more than one phenotype. Ex: Marfan syndrome, one gene that affects connective tissue can have multiple effects on the body such as a weaker heart, taller stature, nearsightedness.
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Complete dominance

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  • Occurs when phenotype a of the heterozygote and dominant homozygote are identical. Ex: Eye color
  • Only one allele in the genotype is seen in the phenotype!
38
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Incomplete dominance

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  • Blended traits. Two birds, one blue, one yellow, make green color.
  • The phenotype of F1 hybrids is somewhere between the phenotype of the two parents
  • a mixture of the alleles in the genotype is seen in the phenotype
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Co-dominance

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  • Two dominant alleles affect the phenotype in separate, distinguishable ways. Ex: blood types,
  • Both alleles in the genotype are seen in the phenotype
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Autosomal recessive

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  • Skips generations.
  • Effects males and females equally
  • Ex: Cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia
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Autosomal dominant

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  • common
  • every generation
  • affected peeps transmit it to half of children
42
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X-linked recessive

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  • rare
  • skips gens
  • affected fathers DONT pass to sons
43
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X-linked Dominant

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  • common
  • affected fathers pass on to all daughters
  • equally likely to get it, though is lethal to males, and most die before birth

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