Mendel's law of independent assortment has its basis in which of the following events of meiosis I?
29. Heredity
Patterns of Inheritance
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You cross two true breeding lines of petunia. One produces red flowers and the other white flowers. The F1
offspring all show pink flowers. You conclude from this that:
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If you look at a blood sample from a person who is heterozygous at the sickle cell locus you will see both normal circular red blood cells and sickle-shaped red blood cells. This is an example of
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A gene for the MN blood group has codominant alleles M and N. If both children in a family are of blood type M, which of the following situations is possible?
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The number of different alleles for ABO blood types is _____ resulting in _____ different blood types.
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Which of the following statements best describes epistasis?
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Which of the following phenotypes is an example of polygenic inheritance?
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A pleiotropic genetic disorder typically has what characteristics?
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The pedigree chart shown depicts the inheritance pattern of __________.
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Determine the likely pattern of inheritance in the following pedigree. List the genotypes of the numbered individuals in this order: #1, #2, and #3.
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A Barr body is:
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A normally pigmented woman whose father was an albino marries a normally pigmented man whose mother was an albino. What is the probability that they would have an albino child?
(a) 50 percent
(b) 25 percent
(c) 12.5 percent
(d) 6.25 percent
(e) 100 percent
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Indicate the type of inheritance involved in each of the following situations.
(a) Children who exhibit the trait have at least one parent who also exhibits it.
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Indicate the type of inheritance involved in each of the following situations.
(b) Children exhibit the trait even though neither parent does.
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Indicate the type of inheritance involved in each of the following situations.
(d) The trait is expressed equally in daughters and sons.
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