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Question
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Colour blindness is a Y-linked character.
Options
True
False
Solution
False
Correct Statement: Colour blindness is an X-linked character.
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A carrier haemophilic woman marries a haemophilic man. What are the chances for her progeny to be haemophilic?
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Linkage is a permanent feature of few genes.
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Females are more affected by sex-linked genetic disorders.
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
A colourblind male cannot distinguish any colour.
Very Short Answer Question.
What are holandric traits?
Father of a child is colourblind and mother is carrier for colourblindness, the probability of the child being colourblind is ____________.
If a woman has an allele for an X-Linked condition i.e. haemophilia, on one of her X chromosomes then this chromosome can be inherited by ______
Girl of normal vision whose father was colour blind marries a man of normal vision whose father was also colour blind. The sons of this marriage would be ______.
If a carrier woman marries a normal visioned man, what is the percentage possibility of sons being colourblind?
Types of sex- linked genes:
(Haemophilia, Ichthyosis, nephritis, Myopia, Hypertrichosis, Retinitis pigmentosa)
| Column 'A' | Column 'B' | |
| (1) | Completely X- linked genes | ______ |
| (2) | Completely Y- linked | ______ |
| (3) | Incompletely sex-linked genes | ______ |
