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Set 4 Inheritance Patterns Of Single Genes And Gene Interaction

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Question 1

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What type of allele is often detected as a distortion in segregation ratios, where one class of expected progeny is missing?

A) incompletely penetrant allele
B) partially dominant allele
C) dominant negative allele
D) temperature- sensitive allele
E) lethal allele

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Question 2

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Which mode of inheritance results in the phenotype of a heterozygote being indistinguishable from that of an organism homozygous for the dominant allele?

A) complete dominance
B) incomplete dominance
C) codominance
D) epistasis
E) incomplete penetrance

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Question 3

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A man with blood type A (whose mother was blood type O) has children with a woman that has blood type AB. The man and the woman are also heterozygous for the H antigen. What is the probability that they will have a child with blood type A?

A) 0
B) 1/8
C) 3/4
D) 1/2
E) 3/8

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