The improvement of microscopy techniques in the late 1800s set the stage for the emergence of modern genetics because:

1. it revealed new and unanticipated features of Mendel’s pea plant varieties.
2. it allowed biologists to study meiosis and mitosis, revealing the parallels between the behaviors of genes and chromosomes.
3. it allowed scientists to see the DNA present within chromosomes.
4. it led to the discovery of mitochondria.

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An abnormal human of the karyotype 49, XXXYY will form how many Barr bodies?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

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Male pattern baldness is a ___________ trait.

1.Sex-linked2.Sex-limited
3.Sex-influenced4.Y-linked

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A sex aneuploid Drosophila has 2 sets of autosomes and sex chromosome complement XXY. This fly would be:

1. A normal fertile female 2. A normal fertile male
3. An intersex 4. A metamale
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In humans, the condition red-green color blindness is a sex-linked recessive trait. In a family pedigree analysis, you find that two people with normal color vision have a color-blind son. This is possible if the genotypes of the parents are:

1. XcXc and XcY 2. XcXc and XCY
3. XCXC and XcY 4. XCXc and XCY
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A woman has four daughters. The chance that her next child will be a son is:

1. 1 2. 0
3. \(1 \over 2\) 4. \(1 \over 4\)
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In Drosophila melanogaster cinnabar eye is a sex-linked recessive trait. A female fly having cinnabar eyes is crossed with a wild-type male. The percentage of the male progeny of this cross with cinnabar eyes is expected to be:

1. 0% 2. 25%
3. 50% 4. 100%
Subtopic:  Sex Linked Recessive Inheritance |

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Eye color in a fly is inherited via a single gene with seven different alleles. How many different types of gametes would be possible in this system in an individual fly?
1. 2
2. 7
3. 28
4. 56

Subtopic:  Polygenic Inheritance & Pleiotropy |
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Nondisjunction of a pair of homologous chromosomes occurs during the anaphase of meiosis I. The four gametes produced as a result of this nondisjunction event will be:

1. n + 1; n + 1; n - 1; n - 1 2. n + 1; n - 1; n; n
3. n + 1; n - 1; n - 1; n - 1 4. n + 1; n + 1; n; n
Subtopic:  Non - Disjunction & Aneuploidy |
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The inheritance of the trait shown in the given pedigree most likely is:

 

1.Autosomal recessive2.Autosomal dominant
3.Sex-linked recessive4.Sex-linked dominant

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