Analyse the following four pedigrees.
Which row in the table correctly identifies the pedigree with the type of inheritance?
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Analyse the following four pedigrees.
Which row in the table correctly identifies the pedigree with the type of inheritance?
Consider Pedigree 1:
→ Both parents affected, daughter unaffected (received recessive alleles from each parent).
→ Trait autosomal dominant (eliminate
Consider Pedigree 3:
→ Father affected, mother unaffected, all daughters affected, all sons unaffected. Trait sex linked with all daughters inheriting one dominant allele (from father) and one recessive (from mother).
Huntington's disease is an autosomal dominant genetic disease.
Using the pedigree, justify the genotype of individual
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A non-infectious disease was observed in a mother and her four sons who live with her. She has no daughters. The father of these children does not have the disease and does not live with them. The woman's parents and her two sisters who live overseas do not have the disease.
A geneticist suspects that the disease is inherited.
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b. Evidence disease is recessive and not sex-linked:
→ Generation 1 parents do not have the disease but it is present in their daughter, meaning it must be recessive.
→ If the disease was sex-linked, the same daughter who has the disease must have a father with the disease, however this is not the case.
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b. Evidence disease is recessive and not sex-linked:
→ Generation 1 parents do not have the disease but it is present in their daughter, meaning it must be recessive.
→ If the disease was sex-linked, the same daughter who has the disease must have a father with the disease, however this is not the case.
It is suspected that a child has a recessive, sex-linked condition. An initial pedigree was developed.
Which of the following is most likely to depict this initial pedigree?
By Elimination
→ Pedigree C displays no information related to the question as no children are affected (Eliminate C).
→ Both pedigree A and D display crosses which are inaccurate and impossible to occur as daughters cannot be affected if the mother does not have recessive sex-linked traits (Eliminate A and D).
Colour blindness in humans is determined by a sex-linked gene. Two family trees are shown.
Which row of the table shows the probability of colour-blind offspring of each sex if individuals 1 and 2 were to have children together?
→ A female carrier and a colour-blind male will have a 50% chance of producing either male or female offspring with colour blindness.
A pedigree chart of an inherited characteristic is shown.
Subsequent genetic analysis showed
Explain the inheritance of this characteristic. (3 marks)
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The pedigree shows the inheritance of a characteristic.
What pattern of inheritance is shown?
→ Characteristic is not dominant (recessive) or sex-linked.
The following pedigree shows the inheritance of a disorder.
Which row of the table shows the genotypes of individuals 1 and 2 ?
By Elimination
→ Both individuals do not have the disorder but have children which do and therefore the condition must be recessive. This means the individuals must be unaffected (have dominant allele) and be heterozygous if it is autosomal. (Eliminate B and D).
→ If the disease is sex-linked, then the genotype of individual 1 when crossed with any female genotype will never have any female children with the disease, which therefore means it cannot be sex-linked. (Eliminate C).
The pedigree shows the inheritance of a genetic disorder.
Which row of the table correctly identifies the two possible types of inheritance for this disorder?
By Elimination:
→ If the trait is autosomal recessive, then it would be impossible to not be affected if both parents are affected (aa x aa).
→ This is not the case for the first individual in generation 3 (eliminate C and D).
→ If the trait is sex-linked recessive, then anytime an affected female has male children, they must be affected, as the recessive allele from the mother must couple with the Y chromosome.
→ This is not the case for the first individual in generation 3 (eliminate B).
The occurrence of a genetic disease in a family resulting from the presence of a dominant allele is shown.
If the disease has arisen as a result of a mutation, which of the following is the most likely cause of the disease in this family?
By Elimination:
→ The characteristic is inherited via individual 4 by generation 3 .
→ It must be germ-line (eliminate C and D).
→ If a mutation occurs in the germ-line cells of an individual, it does not affect that individual, but will affect the offspring.
→ The mutation would have to occur in individual 2’s germ-line cells to then affect individual 4 and 5.
An inherited characteristic in a family is mapped in the pedigree shown.
Inheritance of this characteristic is
By Elimination:
→ The characteristic can be unaffected in the parents but apparent in the offspring.
→ Therefore must be recessive (eliminate C and D).
→ The father in generation 2 is unaffected
→ Therefore it cannot be sex-linked (eliminate B).
One of the genes involved in determining the colour of a species of fish has two alleles: yellow and orange.
The diagram shows a pedigree chart for the inheritance of colour in the fish.
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a. → Parents are both orange (exhibiting dominant allele).
→ Some offspring are yellow, indicating that the yellow allele is present in the parents but not expressed.
→ Therefore yellow allele must be recessive.
b. If sex-linked Inheritance:
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→ A cross between these individuals will result in all male offspring being yellow (
Autosomal Inheritance
→ If the inheritance it autosomal, then
→ A cross between Aa and aa would result in 50% yellow and 50% orange fish, and a cross between AA and aa will result in all orange fish.
→ Both crosses will have orange fish offspring, but sex does not have any influence on inheritance.
Therefore, to determine the inheritance:
→ The absence of orange, male fish would be indicative of a sex-linked inheritance style.
→ The appearance of orange, male fish would confirm the inheritance is autosomal.
a. → Parents are both orange (exhibiting dominant allele).
→ Some offspring are yellow, indicating that the yellow allele is present in the parents but not expressed.
→ Therefore yellow allele must be recessive.
b. If sex-linked Inheritance:
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→ A cross between these individuals will result in all male offspring being yellow (
Autosomal Inheritance
→ If the inheritance it autosomal, then
→ A cross between Aa and aa would result in 50% yellow and 50% orange fish, and a cross between AA and aa will result in all orange fish.
→ Both crosses will have orange fish offspring, but sex does not have any influence on inheritance.
Therefore, to determine the inheritance:
→ The absence of orange, male fish would be indicative of a sex-linked inheritance style.
→ The appearance of orange, male fish would confirm the inheritance is autosomal.