Genetics questions and answers in December 2021

D Question 27 1 pts A OB D 1E G Next three questions: The pedigree shows a genetic disease or trait segregating in a family. Do NOT assume the condition is rare, because it might not be. (1 point) Whi...
D Question 25 1 pts (1 point) CRISPR/Cas9 revolutionized genome editing because (select two options): CRISPR/Cas9 editing has a lot of off-targets OcrRNA can be easily designed to target any gene of i...
Question 24 1 pts (1 point) Scientists used positional cloning to identify a potential loss of function coding mutation associated with congenital limb truncation in human patients. Which experiment w...
D Question 23 1 pts (1 point) Which of these methods is not used to map human disease-causing gene mutations? Whole-genome sequencing O GWAS Whole-exome sequencing Scoring progeny from a test-cross Li...
D Question 15 1 pt (1 point) Which of the following contribute to recessive autosomal disease alleles being present in the population despite selection? (select two options): Natural selection Mutatio...
Question 13 1 pts (1 point) In a period from 1928 to 1942, 26,000 kids were born in a city X. 11 kids had Beta Thalassemia Major (Cooley's Anemia), a recessive autosomal disorder. Assuming the populat...
D Question 11 1 pts An analysis of the blood types in a city of 4200 revealed that 1218 people have blood type M, 882 people have blood type N, and 2100 people have blood type MN. Is the population in...
In unicorns that normally have white manes, a recessive allele that is responsible for a pink mane (w) is linked to another recessive allele (I) which causes a short horn. In a test cross of white-man...
Q5 (5 points) You lab studies one locus for which there are 5 alleles and have population level information from three populations on the frequency of these alleles. Below, this information is shown b...
You've grown two large populations of gillyweed: one under laboratory conditions and the other under natural conditions in the "field". In which population would you expect to have more phenotypic var...
You're studying mating behaviour in Drosophila. You run your experiment controlling for environment. You run the experiment again this time controlling for genotype (the flies are very inbred and gene...