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1. Hair texture in humans is inherited through incomplete dominance, providing t

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Question

1. Hair texture in humans is inherited through incomplete dominance, providing the option for three hair textures: straight, curly, or wavy. If an individual with wavy hair marries an individual with straight hair, what phenotypic ratio would you predict for their offspring?

75% straight; 25% wavy

25% curly: 25% wavy: 25% straight

25% straight: 50% wavy: 25% curly

50% wavy: 50% straight

25% straight: 50% curly: 25% wavy

2. If your mother is homozygous normal, but your father has Huntington's disease (inherited through a dominant allele), what is the probability you will escape the disease entirely (be homozygous normal)?

25%

50%

75%

both a and b are possible genotypes for the husband

both a and c are possible genotypes for the husband

3. In a normal human being, there are:

46 chromosomes

23 pairs of chromosomes

one pair of sex chromosomes

all of the choices (a-c) are correct

both a and c are correct, but b is incorrect

4. If a person inherits two X chromosomes, that person will be:

a female

color blind

a male

sterile

none of the choices (A-d) are correct

a.

75% straight; 25% wavy

b.

25% curly: 25% wavy: 25% straight

c.

25% straight: 50% wavy: 25% curly

d.

50% wavy: 50% straight

e.

25% straight: 50% curly: 25% wavy

Explanation / Answer

1) Well the answer d will be correct because allelws for wavy (Hh) hair are dominant over straight hair (hh). As this is the example of incomplete dominance. Therefore 50% of the offsprings have atraight hair and 50% will have wavy hair.

2) if the mother had hutington's disease then thre are 50% chances for the offspring to escape the disease if the mather is heterozygous and if rye mother is homozygous than there are only 25% chances of escape.

3) all choics are correct (a to c).

4) if a person inherits two chromosomes than it will be a female (XX)