To evaluate kidney function in a 45-year-old woman with type II diabetes, you ask her to collect her urine over 24 hours. She collects 3600 ml of urine in that period. The clinical laboratory returns the following results after analyzing the patient’s urine and plasma samples: plasma creatinine = 4 mg/dL, urine creatinine = 32 mg/dL, plasma potassium = 5 mmol/L, and urine potassium = 10 mmol/L.

What is the net renal tubular reabsorption rate of potassium in this patient?

#Question id: 5352

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Marriage occurs between individuals III-3 and III-6, what is the probability couple; son would be affected with the trait?

#Question id: 5351

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Consider the accompanying pedigree of a rare autosomal recessive disease, PKU. (Assume individual coming from outside that is homozygous for normal allele) What is the probability of child showing trait of A and B individuals?

#Question id: 5350

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following most probable mode of genetic disorder?

#Question id: 5349

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

The following is the inheritance pattern of a trait under observation:

(i) The trait often follow cris cross inheritance 

(iii) Unaffected father born to affected daughter

The trait is likely to be

#Question id: 5348

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Miniature wings (Xm) in Drosophila result from an X-linked allele that is recessive to the allele for long wings (XL). Following different cross with resulting progeny were possible

Which of the following above offspring is not possible to carry miniature wings?

#Question id: 5239

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Which of the following statements is not true for Hfr strains of E. coli ?