Red blood cells are disc shaped. It is thought one factor that allows them to have this shape is because they do not have a nucleus. This tends to increase amount of space inside the cell for hemoglobin.
They have a flexible disc shape which helps increase the surface- to- area volume ratio which enables oxygen and carbon dioxide to diffuse across the red blood cell's plasma membrane more readily.
Their disc shape also enables them to squeeze through tiny capillaries that are half their size .
Answer:
All their descendants will be heterozygous for the skin color, Bb, expressing blue skin.
Explanation:
<u>Available data</u>:
- Smurfette has light blue skin
- Her family is a "true bred" or "purebred" line.
- She married a boy who has light yellow skin
- blue skin is the dominant trait expressed by the B allele
- yellow skin is a recessive trait, expressed by the b allele
Cross: Smurfette x Husband
Parentals) BB x bb
Gametes) B B b b
Phenotypes) blue skin yellow skin
Punnett square)
B B
b Bb Bb
b Bb Bb
F1) 100% of the progeny will be heterozygous for the skin color, Bb
100% of the progeny will be blue-skinned.
Note: Although the progeny is blue-skinned, they are not true-bred anymore.
Water and carbon are major components of all life.Prokaryotic and eukaryotic are the two major categories of cells making up life on earth.
Answer:
RrYy is the genotype that is heterozygous for both seed shape and seed color. The traits here we are discussing are pea plant's seed color and shape.
Explanation:
A dihybrid cross is a cross in which two traits are simultaneously being studied. Here there are two traits under consideration that are seed shape and seed color. The seed shape can be round or wrinkled and seed color can be yellow or green. The round seed allele is dominant over yellow seed allele and the yellow color allele is dominant over green color allele.
As homozygous indicate both alleles of a gene are same in an individual and heterozygous condition indicates that both alleles of a gene in an organism are different.
Therefore the genotype of homozygous pea plants for seed color and seed shape can be RRYY or rryy respectively and genotype of heterozygous genotype will be RrYy respectively.
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