A dominant allele, XE, carried on the X chromosome causes the formation of faulty tooth enamel, resulting in either very thin or very hard enamel. A woman heterozygous for faulty tooth enamel marries a man with normal tooth enamel. What is the probability that their first child will be a boy with normal tooth enamel?

Q: A heterozygous free-lobed man is mated to a heterozygous free-lobed woman. What are the genotypes…

A: Genotype is the genetic makeup of an organism.  It consists of 2 alleles in an individual.

Q: X-linked ichthyosis is an X-linked recessive trait that manifests in part as dry, scaly skin…

A: If one allele is missing it is hemizygous. Heterozygous is the presence of two different alleles at…

Q: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD) is inherited as an X-linked recessive gene in…

A: Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is inherited as an X-linked recessive gene. Woman has…

Q: Both red/green color blindness (R=normal, r=colorblind) and Duchenne-type muscular dystrophy…

A: X-linked recessive inheritance is the genetic condition that can be passed from parent to child…

Q: Gene A has three possible alleles (A1, A2, A3), gebe B has four possible alleles ( B1 - B4), and…

A: The hereditary currency of a cell is the gene. Every gene carries the genetic information from the…

Q: In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease, and the gene is located on the X…

A: Answer: HEMOPHILIA = It is the chromosomal disorder , which sex-linked recessive disease, men are…

Q: Anhidrotic dysplasia (lack of sweat glands) is caused by loss-of-function of an X-linked gene. It is…

A: The female can be mosaic in nature. Because of presence of two X chromosomes. The one X chromosomes…

Q: The allele for baldness is on the X chromosome only. Can any sons obtain theallele for baldness from…

A: A critical baldness gene is found on the X chromosomes. This suggests that the probability of…

Q: A child has a genotype AA, what possible combination of parental genotypes could have produced this…

A: Genotype is the appearance of genes of an individual. Each character in the gene is referred as…

Q: In mice the autosomal genotype yy is for gray fur, YY is for brown fur and Yy is for yellow fur.…

A: DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid) is the genetic material that the organism inherits from the parental…

Q: A woman with achondroplasia (a dominant form of dwarfism) anda phenotypically unaffected man have…

A: On the basis of the given conditions, we can assume that there are 50 percent chances of the…

Q: In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease, and the gene is located on the X…

A: Hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease. This means that in order to produce a diseased…

Q: In humans, blue eyes are inherited as a recessive autosomal trait and color blindness is an X-linked…

A: The objective of this question is to determine the probability of this couple having a son with…

Q: an unaffected woman who is heterozygous for the x linked allele causing duchenne muscular dystrophy…

A: Inheritance is the process of transmitting the traits from parent to offspring. Traits of an…

Q: In a cross between two, dihybrid, heterozygous individuals, what fraction of the offspring will be…

A: dihybrid organism is one that is heterozygous at two different genetic loci.

Q: Charles has achondroplasia dwarfism (autosomal dominant) but his wife is normal. What is the…

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Q: In the cross between a female AaBbccDdee and male AabbCcDdee, what proportion of the progeny are…

A: In this type of genetic cross, each gene is crossed separately and probability of the desired…

Q: Sickle cell anemia is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition. It also exhibits incomplete…

A: Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a genetic disorder that occurs when an individual has two homozygous…

Q: A man and woman are both heterozygous for the recessive allele that causes cystic fibrosis. What is…

A: We all know that cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder that means the genotype of the…

Q: Huntington's disease is caused by a autosomal dominant that is lethal in embryos in the homozygous…

A: Alleles are the alternative forms of a gene that are located on the same locus of a homologous…

Q: Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a recessive disorder caused by a rare,loss-of-function allele that is…

A: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a quickly progressive type of muscular dystrophy that happens…

Q: Imagine a cross between a man and a woman having the following genotypes:    Genotype of the…

A: Dominant allele In genetics, it refers to the situation of one allele masking the affect of other…

Q: If the man, from the previous question, is heterozygous for type A blood and the woman, from the…

A: The blood group is determined by gene I. Gene I have different alleles, these are: IA = It…

Q: Draw a Punnett square for a female who is a heterozygote and a male who is a dominant homozygotes.…

A: Genes are hereditary units in the DNA. These genes can be present in two versions called "dominant"…

Q: A woman is homozygous dominant for short fingers. She marries a man who is heterozygous for short…

A: A Punnett square is a graphical representation used to predict the possible genotypes of offspring…

Q: A human child is born with hemophilia (a condition in which the blood does not clot).  Neither…

A: Given: A human child is born with hemophilia (a condition in which the blood does not clot). Neither…

Q: An unaffected woman, who is heterozygous for an X-linked allele causing Duchenne muscular dystrophy,…

A: The alleles are the alternative forms of a gene that are located on the same locus of the homologous…

Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain biological inheritance that follows the rules and principles laid down by Gregor Mendel in 1865. The initial hypothesis was considered wrong, but other inheritance theories modified the concept of inheritance and thus genetics.