What pattern of inheritance do recessive traits show?

Q: How do the modes of transmission of autosomal recessive andautosomal dominant inheritance differ?

A: Answer: Introduction: Inheritance means the transfer of genetic data is from parent to child. There…

Q: How do genes determine the traits of an organism?

A: The gene is the genetic code's most fundamental physical and functional unit. The stuff that makes…

Q: What are the inheritance patterns and general clinical features of some common genetic disorders?

A: Genetic disorder  can be defined as the health problem  which caused by one or more abnormalities in…

Q: How does mitochondrial inheritance work?

A: Cell division is a process of a parent cell replicating it chromosomal content and dividing itself…

Q: Distinguish between autosomal recessive and autosomaldominant genetic disorders.

A: A genetic disorder is responsible for causing health problems due to the persistence of one or more…

Q: Differentiate between the Dominance and Recessive.

A: DNA is present inside the nucleus. It is the genetic material of an organism and it is transferred…

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: 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: Which of the following genetic diseases is/are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait: sickle cell…

A: Introduction: Huntington's disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown…

Q: What is genetic disorders? Explain by giving an example.

A: Genetics is described as the branch of biology that focuses on the study of genes, their…

Q: What is a trait is intermediate of parents?

A: According to Mendelian inheritance, a single character is controlled by one or more genes where each…

Q: when else do we see a non-Mendelian  pattern of inheritance? a)When genes are located on different…

A: Each inherited characteristic is characterised by a gene pair, according to the Law of…

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.