Q1. The palomino horse is golden in colour. Unfortunately for horse fanciers, palominos don’t breed true. In sequence of matings between palominos, after that offspring were obtained: 64 palominos: 32- cream-colored, 32- chestnut (reddish brown) what is the possible mode of inheritance of palomono coloration? Q2. A 40 year old […]

The blood disease beta-thalassemia results from homozygosity for a defective allele in the gene coding for the beta hemoglobin subunit. Homozygotes for the beta-thalassemia allel die in childhood, while heterozygotes appear normal. This disease is common in the region around the Mediterranean sea, including the island of Sardinia, where malaria […]

Question: Throughout much of Europe, there has been a severe decline in the mushroom population. On study plots in Holland, data collected since 1912 indicate that the number of mushroom species has dropped from 37 to 12 per plot in recent years. Along with the reduction in the number of species, […]

Question 1: Select the viruses below that would be able to replicate if you injected only their genome into a permissive cell line (Hint: You should be able to answer this question by looking up the Baltimore classificaton of each virus)? Answer   A.   Respiratory Syncytial Virus B.   […]