Most of the cells in the human body are diploid.
Diploid is a cell or organism that has paired chromosomes, one from each parent. In humans majority of the cells are diploid and have 23 pairs of chromosomes. The exception are the human sex cells (egg and sperm cells). These contain a single set of chromosomes and are known as haploid.
My guess:
I do not know the options to the blanks, but I'd say that the answer to the first one is "strongly linked". Think of a chromosome as a phylogenic chart → 2 species that are beside each other are strongly linked, if compared to 2 species 3 spots apart form each other. So, 2 genes that are close to each other are strongly linked.
I do not know the options to the blanks, but I'd say the answer to the second one is epistasis → which is the interaction between two different genes (different means they're not linked alleles).
Hope it helped,
BioTeacher101
Answer:
The statement that says " The mitochondrion contains a circular chromosome that has bacterial DNA sequences" is true among the all statement given above.
Explanation:
The Endosymbiotic theory that is other wise known as the symbiogensis illustrates the occurrence of the eukaryotic cell from the prokaryotic cells. Mitochondria and plastids are the most studied example in support of this theory. This theory explains that the aforementioned organelles are formed as they are taken inside in one another by the prokaryotic cell. Some of the evidences in support of this theory are mentioned below:
- Phylogenetic similarity between the mitochondria and chloroplast to the proteobacteria and cynobacteria respectively.
- Ability of these organelles to divide only through binary fission as the bacterial population.
- The associated ribosomes are similar to the bacterial ribosomes.
- Presence of porins in these organelles similar the bacterial membrane.
