Answer:
The student is wrong, spermatozoa are germinal cells and therefore mitochondrial mutations (likewise genomic nuclear mutations) are inherited by offspring
Explanation:
Although the probabilities of inheriting a mutation from a single sperm cell are low, it since an organism produces millions of sperm cells throughout its life span, the mutations in the germinal cells (i.e., sperms and ovules) are inherited by offspring
Answer:
B- A cleft chin is due to a dominant allele
Explanation:
A husband and wife both having the phenotype for cleft chin and producing an offspring without a cleft chin, indicates heterozygousity in their genotype.
With the heterozygous genotype however, they both expressed the phenotype for cleft chin, indicating that the allele for cleft chin is dominant over the allele coding for normal chin.
Since both parents are heterozygous for cleft lip, the sequence of genotype in their offspring will be:
- 25% chance of having homozygous cleft chin
- 50% chance of having heterozygous cleft chin
- 25% chance of having homozygous normal chin
Because of the dominance of the cleft chin allele, both homozygous and heterozygous forms of the cleft chin allele, will be expressed in the offspring and only the offspring homozygous for normal chin will not express this allele.
Answer:
Gene
Explanation:
This describes a gene or genotype -- the basic physical and functional unit of heredity.
Chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell are bearers of genes
Answer:
The plant will grow towards the light, it'll bend down and over the pot to get as much light as possible
Explanation:
Plants need and use light to live so they slowly grow and move towards any light source they can
