Answer: A geneticist studies a series of families in which both parents are normal and at least one child has albinism. The geneticist reasons that both parents in these families must be heterozygotes and that albinism should appear in of the children of these families. To his surprise, the geneticist finds that the frequency of albinism among me children of these families is considerably greater "Than . Can you think of an explanation for the Thigher-than-expected frequency of albinism among These families?
Explanation:
The resulting mice will be induced with the changed gene either on or off. The offspring will have altered genes if both the alleles have the trait. This is a heritable change.
Explanation:
Making gene on or off is a process of gene regulation when one of the gene is methylated or histone modification to prevent access to transcription factors hence no expression of the protein. This process is called epigenetics.
The resulting progeny in mice will receive the allele of on or off the gene. Such genes with altered allele are also called as
The altered genes will be expressed in the resulting progeny of mice.
The epigenetic genes can be reverted with environmental effects in the offspring paramutable alleles. They are heritable.
