Inheritance questions Flashcards

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1
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What is meant by codominence

A

When both alleles are expressed by phenotype

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2
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Male cats with a tortoiseshell phenotype do not usually occur. Explain why.

A

Males only posses one allele
-can’t be reccesive

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3
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Some breeders only breed for the dominant allele, what would happen to the alleles

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  • increase of homozygous dominant
  • decrease of homozygous recessive
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4
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Some scientists use the restriction enzyme on each dn strand

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Cut at same base sequence
So all code for R

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5
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Explain what it means for genes to be linked

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They have 2 genes on the same chromosome

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6
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Use your knowledge of gene linkage to explain the results
975, 963,186,194
On GgNn

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-mainly Gn and gn produced
-when crossed over few Gn and gN
-so few ggNn

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7
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Explain the advantage of presenting results as a ratio?

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  • allows to validly compare
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8
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give 2 causes of genetic variation

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  • crossing over
    -random fusion of gametes
    -random fertilisation
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9
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Do autosomal alleles cross over

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no

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10
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Why arnt the observed phenotype ratios not the same as expected

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-random fertilisation
-small sample size

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