Inheritance And Genes

Question 1

A red individual is crossed with a white individual. Which inheritance pattern is exhibited if their offspring is pink?

Answer 1

Incomplete dominance

Question 2

Alternate forms of the same gene

Answer 2

Allele

Question 3

Phenotype refers to the ____ of an individual

Answer 3

Actual physical appearance

Question 4

When the genotype consists of dominant and recessive allele the, the phenotype will be like the

Answer 4

Dominant allele

Question 5

Twin are separated at birth under very different circumstances in different environments. if one was to compare DNA, it’ll be found it was exactly the same. How are twins so different

Answer 5

Epigenetic

Question 6

Methyl groups binding to genes affecting their expression is an example of

Answer 6

Epigenetic

Question 7

Histones proteins can move along the DNA and case up or down regulation. As a tool of Epigenetic, this model is most like a

Answer 7

Knob

Question 8

Hemophilia is an X-linked recessive condition in which blood does not clot properly. Queen
Victoria of England had one allele for hemophilia. Most of her male descendants had the
disorder, but few females had it. Why did hemophilia occur more frequently in Queen Victoria’s
male descendants?

Answer 8

Only one copy of the X chromosome is found in cells of males, but 2 copies are found in cells of females