MT6315 L2 MENDELIAN AND NON-MENDELIAN Flashcards
Genetics is a branch of biology what deals with?
heredity and variation
What carries hereditary information?
Chromosomes
T or F: Homologous chromosomes contain the same genetic information
F; only look alike but different information and contain the DNA that codes for the same genes but different ‘versions’
What are sister chromatids?
exact replicas
What is a gene?
unit of heredity; a section of DNA sequence
encoding a single protein
two genes that occupy the same position on homologous chromosomes and that cover the same trait
Alleles
What is a genome?
the entire set of genes in an organism
a fixed location on a strand of DNA where a gene or one of its alleles is located.
Locus/Locii (plural)
How many autosomal chromosome pairs are there?
22
Dominant genes occur in what conditions?
Heterozygous
Single pair genetic cross
Parents differ by a single trait
Monohybrid cross
What are single gene diseases? Mendelian or Non mendelian?
Mendelian
What type of phenotype is the most common expression of a particular allele combination in a population?
Wild type
T or F: Wild type may be recessive or dominant.
T
phenotype is a variant of a gene’s expression that arises when the gene undergoes
a change
Mutant phenotype
What is an illness that causes uncontrollable movements and changes cognition?
Huntington’s disease
HD is dominant or recessive?
Dominant
T or F: Each child of an affected individual need inherit only one copy of the mutant gene to develop the disease.
T
T or F: An inherited disease affects each child independently.
T
What is autosomal dominant inheritance?
Inheritance in the same way regardless of sex
How do you deduce the probability that a particular person has inherited a single-gene disease?
considering how he or she is related to an affected relative.
tests can sometimes predict the risk of developing symptoms.
T or F: Single genes are specific in commonality in certain populations.
Common in some populations than others
Why do mutations stay in certain populations?
because we tend to have children with people similar to ourselves.
Examples of single-gene disease?
sickle cell disease and muscular dystrophy
Many phenotypes associated with single genes are influenced by _____ and _______
other genes as well as by environmental factors
The single gene controls?
trait transmission and other genes and the environment affect the degree of the trait or severity of the illness
What is the test of trios?
sick children and their parents can reveal whether the child inherited two disease-causing mutations from carrier parents, or whether a dominant mutation arose anew, termed “de novo.”
Before Mendel, what was the thought of inheritance?
Blending theory - traits blend together and are inherited by offspring
What are the traits Mendel observed in pea plants?
Seed form
Seed color
Pod form
Pod color
Flower position
Seed coat color
Stem length
Why did Mendel choose pea plants?
easy to grow, develop quickly, and have many traits that take one of two easily distinguishable forms.”
What is Mendel’s theory?
Particulate theory of inheritance aka Gene idea
Inheritance involves the passing of discrete units of inheritance, or genes, from parents to offspring.
What is the Chromosome Theory of Inheritance and who proposed it?
Sutton and Boveri using fruit flies
Genes are present within chromosomes inside the cell
Genes and chromosomes are in pairs in diploid cells
What are the principles of the pattern of inheritance?
- Principle of Dominance
- Principle of Independent Assortment
- Principle of Segregation
What principle: When gametes are formed, the pairs of hereditary factors (genes) become separated, so that each sex cell (egg/sperm) receives only one kind of gene.
Principle of Segregation
Mendel noted that short plants crossed to other short plants were?
true breeding - producing the same phenotype all the way due to homozygous recessives
Some dominantly inherited diseases are said to be due to?
gain of function - result from the action of an abnormal protein that interferes with the function of the normal protein.
Huntington disease results from a gain-of-function in which?
dominant mutant allele encodes an abnormally long protein that prevents the normal protein from functioning in certain brain cells.
protein encoded by the mutant HD allele must be abnormal, not absent, to cause the disease.
What does the gain of function do?
ADDS activity to alter the encoded protein
T or F: The gain-of-function nature of HD is why people with one mutant allele have the same phenotype as the rare individuals with two mutant alleles.
T
Why do dominant diseases persist in populations?
because they do not prevent a person from having children and passing on the mutation.
What gene confers eye color?
OCA2 on chromosome 15 by controlling melanin synthesis
If OCA2 gene is missing, what happens?
Albinism occurs
What does recessive and dominant OCA2 confer?
Dominant - brown eyes
Recessive - blue eyes
What causes blue eyes?
HERC2 recessive allele abolishes control over OCA2
2 copies of recessive allele in HERC2 to have blue eyes
T or F: Under certain circumstances, for some genes, a homozygous individual can develop symptoms.
F; heterozygous
What sickness?
Carriers can develop a life- threatening breakdown of muscle if exposed to the combination of environmental heat, intense physical activity, and dehydration.
Sickle cell disease
What is compound heterozygosity?
An individual with two different recessive alleles for the same gene
Inherited diseases are CH
How is nucleotide inheritance determined?
laboratory-based: 10X Genomics or fosmid pool-based strategy
computer-based: SHAPEIT2, Beagle, Eagle2, HapCUT2
What are common Compound Heterozygous diseases?
Phenylketonuria
Tay-Sachs
Sickle cell
first genetic disorder for which mass post-natal
genetic screening was available, beginning in the early 1960s, atypical cases were detected almost
immediately.
Phenylketonuria
In PHENYLKETONURIA, molecular analysis of the genome was not yet possible, but ________revealed
cases caused by compound heterozygosity.
protein sequencing in phenylketonuria
Tay-Sachs is a result of compound heterozygosity between?
two alleles, one that causes the classic infantile disease in homozygotes and another that allows some residual HEXA enzyme activity.
Sickle cell disease is a result of?
result from inheritance of the sickle cell gene in a compound heterozygous manner with other mutant beta globin genes.
In the case of sickle cell anemia, an individual with one allele for hemoglobin S and one allele for hemoglobin C would still develop the disease, despite being heterozygous for both genes.
Recessive traits arise from?
loss of function - prevents the production or activity of the normal protein
What is the inborn error of metabolism?
diseases are typically recessive because the half normal amount of the enzyme that a carrier produces is usually sufficient to maintain health.
The one normal allele, therefore, compensates for the mutant one, to which it is dominant.
What is more severe, dominant or recessive diseases?
recessive
Why do disease-causing recessive alleles remain in populations?
healthy -heterozygotes pass them to future
generations
What kind of genetic diseases are transmitted silently? How?
autosomal recessive and unexpectedly
via heterozygotes (carriers)
What conditions serve as a more likely occurrence of autosomal recessive being passed on to the next generation?
Consanguinity
Autosomal Dom or Recessive: Males and females equally affected
Auto dom
Autosomal Dom or Recessive: skips generations
Auto Rec
Autosomal Dom or Recessive: passed on until no one is affected
Auto dom
Autosomal Dom or Recessive: Affected person has affected parents unless there is de novo
Auto dom
Autosomal Dom or Recessive: parents can be affected OR carriers
Auto rec
The law of segregation reflects the actions of chromosomes and the genes they carry during ______.
meiosis
What is non-true breeding?
heterozygous
T or F: Gametes combine non-randomly,
F; random
T or F: Two genes that are far apart on the same chromosome also appear to independently assort, because so many crossovers take place between them that it is as if they are part of separate chromosomes
T
What kind of analysis is associated with the Law of Dominance?
Test cross or Pedigree Analysis