Many eukaryotic genes contain a large number of exons. Correct splicing of such genes requires that neighboring exons be ligated to one another; if they are not, exons will be left out. One early proposal suggested that the splicing machinery bound to a splice site at one end of an intron and scanned through the intron to find the splice site at the other end. Such a scanning mechanism would guarantee that an exon was never skipped. This hypothesis was tested with one minigene with a duplicated 3ʹ splice site. Find diagram of the products you expect from minigene if the splicing machinery binds to a 3ʹ splice site and scans toward a 5ʹ splice site.

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#Question id: 15001

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You cross true breeding lizards that are either green or albino and discover that all the offspring are striped green and white. Which is the most likely result if you cross two striped lizards?

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#Question id: 15002

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

If you performed a dihybrid cross and found that your results were significantly different from the 9:3:3:1 ratio, what would you suspect?

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#Question id: 15003

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Laurie met her husband Jim at a support group for families dealing with PKU (phenylketonurea), a recessive genetic disorder. Laurie and Jim both have one sister who is affected with PKU and no other family history of the disorder. They come to you as a genetic counselor to ask what their risk is of having an affected child. What do you tell them?

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#Question id: 15004

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following statements about a pedigree would be most definitive in determining a recessive pattern of inheritance?

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#Question id: 15005

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

You identify a previously unidentified plant species and decide to study its genetics. You establish true breeding strains for leaf shape (longer than wide vs equal length and width) and flower color (white vs. yellow). When you perform a dihybrid cross with these strains, you find that your results are very different than those predicted by a 9:3:3:1 ratio. You calculate a chi square and get a p value of less than 0.0001. Which of the following statements is most accurate based on this observation?

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#Question id: 15006

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following is not a mechanism for sex determination?