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#Question id: 5338


Which one of the following is not true for a disease inherited as a sex-linked dominant in humans?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. All daughters of an affected male will inherit the disease

  2. Sons will inherit the disease, only if their mother has the diseases

  3. Daughters will inherit the disease, only if their father has the diseases

  4. Both affected males and affected heterozygous females will pass the trait to half their children

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#Question id: 4743

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Ectrodactyly is an autosomal dominant trait that causes missing middle fingers (lobster claw malformation). A grandfather and grandson both have ectrodactyly, but the intervening father has normal hands by x-ray. Which of the following terms applies to this family?

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#Question id: 4744

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Assume that long ear lobes in humans are an autosomal dominant trait that exhibits 50% penetrance. A person who is heterozygous for long ear lobes mates with a person who is homozygous for normal ear lobes. What is the probability that their first child will have long ear lobes.

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#Question id: 4745

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

In some goats, the presence of horns is produced by an autosomal gene that is dominant in males and recessive in females. A horned female is crossed with a hornless male. The F1 offspring are intercrossed to produce the F2. What proportion of the F2 offspring will have horns?

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#Question id: 4746

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Two independent pure line varieties having deep red and brown phenotype in their seed coat were cross, the all f1 progeny is deep red. The F2 progeny obtain from selfing show deep red and brown in ratio of 15:1. Which of the following observation is correct?

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#Question id: 4747

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

How does incomplete dominance differ from incomplete penetrance?

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#Question id: 4748

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Eye color in Drosophila present on X chromosome, Red eye color is dominant over white eye color. There is non disjunction in Meiosis I in female and normal meiosis in male. Female is white eye color was cross with red eye male. What will be expected phenotype in their progeny?