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Statement (S): The heterozygous individuals for sickle-cell anaemia HbAHbS express disease phenotype and also carriers of the disease.

Reason (R): HbAHbS genotype individuals are resistant to severe effects of malaria.

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Important Questions on Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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A change of single base pair in the gene for beta globin chain (in human haemoglobin) that results in the change of amino acid residue glutamine to valine which is due to
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Match the following:

Disorder Reason
A) Thalassemia
B) Haemophilia
C) Sickle cell anaemia
D) Alkaptonuria
I) Point mutation
II) Autosomal recessive metabolic disorder
III) Abnormal haemoglobin
IV) Non-disjunction of chromosomes
V) Sex-linked recessive disorder

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A woman (whose father is haemophilic and mother is homozygous normal) married a normal man and had two sons and two daughters. What are the chances of their sons being haemophilic?
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Match the following lists:

  List I   List II
A) Change in single base pair of DNA I) Recombination
B) Deletions of base pairs of DNA II) Genetic map
C) Generation of non-parental gene combination III) Point mutations
D) The frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome IV) Frame-shift mutations

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