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What are characteristics passed from parent to offspring called?
genetic traits
What are the different forms of a gene that decide a characteristic known as?
Each allele has two forms which are known as alleles. Alleles play an important role as to which characteristics either from mother or father will be passed along to the next generation. The way in which alleles are expressed is the study of genetics.
What can cause mongolism?
Mongolism or Down-Symdronecan be passed down by the parent.
What role do alleles play in natural selection?
Genes are the medium by which inherited traits are passed on to offspring. It is inherited traits, and thus genes, that receive positive or negative selection.
Compare and contrast dominant and recessive?
In genetics, each organism will typically have 2 alleles for each trait. For a trait such as hair color, you might have an allele for red hair from your dad and an allele for brown hair from your mom. The trait for brown hair happens to be dominant to the trait for red hair so you would show the allele for brown hair. (In other words, you would have brown hair.)
What has alleles that are passed parent to child on a sex chromosome?
Sex-linked traits have alleles that are passed from parent to child on a sex chromosome.
Different or alternative forms of the same gene are called?
Alleles are alternate forms of the same gene. A gene is the basic physical unit of heredity that is passed on from a parent to their children.
What will determine the genotype of an organism?
The alleles that are passed from parents to offspring
A trait which is inherited on sex chromosomes is?
Color blindness is an example of a trait that is inherited on sex chromosomes. It is passed down on the X chromosome, and males are more likely to be colorblind because they have only one X chromosome.
What are passed from parent to child on a sex chromosome?
They are sex-linked genes.
What are alleles passed from parent to child on a sex chromosomes?
They are sex-linked genes.
How many alleles for a trait are passed down from each parent?
There are three common Blood type alleles: A, B, and O. We all have two alleles, one inherited from each parent. The possible combinations of the three alleles are: OO; AO; BO; AB; AA; BB.
Two form of the same gene is called?
An indiviual letter in a punnett square representing a gene is called an allele. The two genes ( one from each parent ) together is a genotype. There isn't really two forms of a gene.
What is a trait that is passed from parent to child on the X chromosome called?
Recessive traits on X chromosome are expressed in males because they have only one copy of X chromosome. If they have any recessive gene it will be expressed. In female both the genes should be recessive then only the recessive character will be expressed.
Y linked genes are passed only from who?
Y-linked genes are only passed from father to son because the Y chromosome is inherited exclusively in a paternal manner. Since females inherit an X chromosome from each parent, they do not receive a Y chromosome from their father.
What is the possibility of one of many different genes on a chromosomes?
The probability of a specific gene being passed on from a parent to their offspring is 50% for each parent. This is because each parent contributes one copy of each gene to their offspring. Therefore, the likelihood of inheriting a specific gene from one of many genes on a chromosome is dependent on the genetic makeup of the parents.
What are alleles and what are the two forms?
Alleles are different versions of a gene that can code for different traits. The two forms of alleles are dominant and recessive. Dominant alleles mask the effects of recessive alleles when present together in an individual's genotype.
