Assignment: My subject is X-linked hypophosphatemia rickets, dominant What is a fact sheet? A fact sheet provides meaningful information about a topic in a format that is extremely brief and easy to read. Experts use them to summarize the “state of the art” about the topic. Fact sheets are used […]

1. For a quantitative trait, how can two different genotypes produce the same phenotype?2. How can you determine the number of loci (genes) controlling a quantitative trait (Castle-Wright)?3. What is the difference between a population and a sample? What makes a good sample?4. What’s a normal distribution?5. If you have […]

let A and a represent dominant and recessive alleles whos respective frequencies are p and q in a given interbreeding population at equilibrium (with p+q=1). A) if 16 percent of the individuals in the population have recessive phenotypes, what percentage of the total number of recessive genes exist in the […]

Assume a eukaryotic gene contains three exons. a. Draw a diagram of this gene (template and coding strand) and the pre-mRNA and mRNA derived from it. b. Include in your diagrams and give a brief description of the function of each of the following: promoter, AAUAAA consensus sequence, transcription start […]