#Question id: 24650
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
#Question id: 3558
#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a Mendelian disorder in the human population that is inherited as a recessive. Normal parents have two children with CF. The probability of their next child being normal son for this characteristic.
#Question id: 4110
#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
Tay-Sachs disease belongs to the family of lysosomal storage diseases; it is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder caused by deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme hexosaminidase. The inability to degrade sphingolipids results in the deposition of these lipids in the cells that causes severe mental retardation and death in childhood. The most common mutation in Tay-Sachs disease patients is a 4-base pair insertion in exon 11 of the 14 exons of the hexosaminidase gene. What could be the most likely consequence of this mutation?
#Question id: 11362
#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Within a trophic level, this term refers to groups of species that feed on similar resources and often have similar ways of life.
#Question id: 26561
#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
In plants, miRNAs are generated by