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Alzheimer's disease is an example of autosomal recessive disorder.

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Important Questions on Heredity and Variation

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The following family tree traces the occurrence of a rare genetic disease. The filled symbols signify the individuals with the disease, whereas the open symbols signify healthy individuals.

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Based on this information, the disease is most likely to be:

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Choose the odd one and write it:
Dwarfism, Goiter, Thalassaemia, Diabetes Mellitus
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The genetic disorder in which an individual has an overall masculine development, gynaecomastia and is sterile:
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Give one example of autosomal genetic disease. What is its reason?
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Which of the following muscular disorders is inherited?
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A disease caused by an autosomal primary non-disjunction is
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Pick out the correct statements:

(i) Colour blindness is a sex-linked recessive gene disorder.

(ii) Klinefelter's syndrome is 18th chromosomal trisomy.

(iii) Phenylketonuria is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder.

(iv) Down’s syndrome is due to aneuploidy.

 
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Given below is a pedigree showing inheritance of Myotonic Dystrophy, an autosomal dominant disorder-

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The genotypes of person 1, 2 and 3 in this family tree are:-
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If an albino man (autosomal recessive trait)  marries to a normal woman, has two offsprings one albino and one normal. The woman is:
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Due to non-disjunction of chromosomes during spermatogenesis, sperms carry both sex chromo-somes (22 A + XY) and some sperms do not carry any sex chromosome (22 A + O). If these sperms fertilise normal eggs (22 A + X), what type of genetic disorders appear among the offspring ?
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Fill in the blank with the correct word given in the bracket.

_____ (Klinefelter/Down) syndrome is a chromosomal variation in males in which one extra X chromosome is present.

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Which of the following statement is/are correct for Turner’s syndrome ?
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The inheritance pattern of a gene over generations among humans is studied by the pedigree analysis. Character studied in the pedigree analysis is equivalent to
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Select the incorrect statement w.r.t. pedigree analysis
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A disease which causes the black color of the urine