Chapter 12: Q. 33 (page 328)
People with trisomy 21 develop Down’s syndrome. What law of Mendelian inheritance is violated in this disease? What is the most likely way this occurs?
Short Answer
Violation of the Law of Segregation
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Chapter 12: Q. 33 (page 328)
People with trisomy 21 develop Down’s syndrome. What law of Mendelian inheritance is violated in this disease? What is the most likely way this occurs?
Violation of the Law of Segregation
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Use a Punnett square to predict the offspring in a cross between a dwarf pea plant (homozygous recessive) and a tall pea plant (heterozygous). What is the phenotypic ratio of the offspring?
Which is one of the seven characteristics that Mendel observed in pea plants?
a. flower size
b. seed texture
c. leaf shape
d. stem color
A heterozygous pea plant produces violet flowers and yellow, round seeds. Describe the expected genotypes of the gametes produced by Mendelian inheritance. If all three genes are found on the same arm of one chromosome should a scientist predict that inheritance patterns will follow Mendelian genetics?
The forked line and probability methods make use of what probability rule?
a. test cross
b. product rule
c. monohybrid rule
d. sum rule
A farmer raises black and white chickens. To his surprise, when the first generation of eggs hatch all the chickens are black with white speckles throughout their feathers. What should the farmer expect when the eggs laid after interbreeding the speckled chickens hatch?
a. All the offspring will be speckled.
b. 75% of the offspring will be speckled, and 25% will be black.
c. 50% of the offspring will be speckled, 25% will be black, and 25% will be white.
d. 50% of the offspring will be black and 50% of the offspring will be white.
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