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Lethal dominant disorders are rare because they typically result in early embryonic lethality or severe health issues that prevent affected individuals from surviving to reproductive age. In these disorders, only one copy of the mutated gene is needed to manifest the condition, but if the mutation is lethal, it often leads to miscarriage or death shortly after birth. Consequently, the genes responsible for these disorders are not passed on to future generations, limiting their prevalence in the population.
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Why are dominant alleles that cause lethal disorders less common that recessive alleles that cause lethal disorders?
A lethal dominant gene prohibits the organism from reproducing irregardless of the paired gene, so it is removed from the gene pool as soon as it appears. A lethal recessive gene, on the other hand, does not prevent reproduction unless it is paired with another lethal recessive, so it may be passed down through many generations before becoming paired and preventing reproduction.
What is dominant lethal allele?
Dominant lethal is a genetic trait. If the genome of an individual has the trait, it is expressed and makes it impossible for the individual to have descendants. Its effects cause foetal or embryonic death.
A healthy individual is a carrier of a lethal allele but is unaffected by it what is the probable genotype of this individual?
The probable genotype of this individual is likely heterozygous for the lethal allele, carrying one normal allele and one lethal allele. This individual is considered a carrier because they do not show any symptoms of the lethal allele's effects.
Why are recessive disorders more common than dominant disorders?
dominant traits show up in the first generation so any disorders have a 50% percent chance of showing up in offspring. recessive traits skip a generation therefore any diseases would have on a 25% chance.
Is gigantism a dominant or recessive gene?
Gigantism is usually caused by a hormone disorder, not a single gene being dominant or recessive. In some rare cases, gigantism can be caused by a genetic mutation, but it is not a simple dominant or recessive trait.
What is the difference between a lethal and nonlethal contagion?
the difference between nonlethal and lethal is that they both have lethal in there but non means no so nonlethal means no lethal at all. judy wardell=]
How can a lethal gene be passed from one generation to the other?
If the lethal gene is recessive, and the parent carrying it is heterozygous for that gene, it can be passed down to offspring in the recessive form. If the mate of the parent happens to be carrying the same gene heterozygously, 50% of offspring will be expected to inherit the recessive lethal gene heterozygously. 25% of the offspring will be expected to inherit the lethal gene homozygously, leading to death. The remaining 25% of offspring we will expect to homozygously inherit the non-lethal gene. 1:2:1 ratio
How can a lethal allele continue to be present in a gene pool even when they are selected against?
A harmful recessive allele remains in the population because both homozygous dominant and heterozygous genotypes produce the dominant, healthy phenotype. So the heterozygous genotype keeps the harmful recessive allele in the population.
Is lethal injection legal?
yes lethal injection is mostly a type of execution method so it is cosidered legal
Why are recessive phenotypes so rare?
Recessive phenotypes are rare because they require two copies of the recessive allele to be expressed, which means both parents must carry the allele for the phenotype to be observed in offspring. If the allele is rare in the population, the likelihood of two carriers mating is low. Additionally, dominant alleles often overshadow recessive ones, leading to greater expression of dominant traits. As a result, recessive traits persist at lower frequencies in the gene pool.
Is the mutation asthma recessive or dominant?
Asthma doesn't have a gene so its neither
Sentence for the word lethal?
I'm lethal to ciggarett smoke "She was fatally injured due to a lethal stab to the chest" "She didn't know she had an allergy so consumption was lethal" "He was sentenced to lethal injection"
