What is an allele?

Q: Are the alleles of a genenecessarily originated onefrom the father and the otherfrom the mother? Are…

A: Allele is the one or more versions of a gene. It is variant of a gene. It can refer to the different…

Q: Types of Dominance?

A: An allele is a variant form of a given gene. It means, it is one of two or more versions of a known…

Q: What is an allele is lethal only under certain conditions?

A: Lethal alleles as the term suggests are the death-causing alleles and occur due to mutation.  The…

Q: Define Mendel’s first law?

A: Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with heredity and inheritance. Gregor Johann Mendel is…

Q: What are Polygenic and Multiple allele?

A: Introduction  Phenotype of any organisms is basically controlled by genes present in various loci on…

Q: Do genes or alleles independently assort?

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

Q: Define by giving an example : Allele.

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

Q: What are the recessive gene traits that can be inherited?

A: Recessive gene traits that can be inherited are:- 1)straight hair 2)Blonde or red hair 3)Hitch…

Q: What is a lethal allele? Contrast recessive lethal allele and dominant lethal allele.

A: Allele: An allele is one of two or more versions of a gene. An individual inherits two alleles for…

Q: How do alleles relate to encoding proteins?

A: Gene is a segment of DNA[deoxyribonucleic acid] which possess information about a particular trait…

Q: How do you use a punnet square in determining how blood group is inherited?

A: Each person’s blood cells contain different combinations of antigens which determine the person’s…

Q: What is nonadditive allele ?

A: An allele is  publication of one or two a gene. Two alleles for each gene, one from each parent, an…

Q: What are the alleles present in an individual?

A: A gene is a precise region of the DNA which regulates a specific trait. An allele is defined as one…

Q: How do the multiple alleles of an allelic series arise?

A: A gene is a unit of genetic material present within the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Each gene…

Q: What is an example of a lethal allele?

A: Alleles that cause an organism to die are called lethal alleles. The genes which result in viability…

Q: What are three similarities and three differences between dominant alleles and recessive alleles?

A: Genetics is a study of genes, heredity, and genetic variation in an organism. Living organisms…

Q: How does a genotype differ from a phenotype?

A: Organisms have DNA/ RNA  as their genetic material. This genetic material is responsible for…

Q: What is the presence or absence of the dominant alleles of two genes?

A: An allele is an alternative form of a gene (one member of a pair)which is located on the specific…

Q: What are genomic imprinting and nondisjunction?

A: The process of genomic imprinting and nondisjunction are related to genetic material or genome.…

Q: Why are some alleles dominant and some recessive?

A: A short-portion of the DNA is termed as a gene. The genes are the essential functions as well as…

Q: Where do new alleles come from?

A: Answer- Alleles are the varients of a gene. They are present on the same locus of the chromosome and…

Q: Who has stronger genes mother or father?

A: A gene is a short stretch of nucleotides present on a chromosome or DNA molecule, that codes for the…

Q: What is an allele? Give example

A: Genes are small segments of DNA that may or may not be expressed phenotypically. They are inherited…

Q: What is a genotype? Whatis the difference betweengenotype and phenotype?

A: Gene is the basic component of heredity. It is the functional unit of life as it contains all the…

Q: Why are some alleles dominant to other alleles?

A: In 1865, Gregor Mendel an Austrian scientist experimented on garden pea hybrids and published his…

Q: What allele does the black (or red) bean represent

A: Study of heredity is called genetics. The presence of various genes that consists of DNA are…

Q: How are the alleles of a gene different from each other? What is its importance?

A: Alleles are different variants of the same gene that are genetically different . For example, a gene…

Q: Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. She had no known children, and…

A: Haemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disorder. The abnormal gene responsible for haemophilia is…

Q: What are genes with more than one common allele?

A: Genes are the basic structural and functional unit of heredity. They carry coded genetic information…

Q: How the Chromosome Theory of Inheritance Explains Mendel’s Laws?

A: Gregor Mendel was the scientist who worked in the field of molecular biology and genetics. These…

Q: What is the relationship of the gene to the trait?

A: Gene is a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring which determine some…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.