Case Study- Rotator Cuff Injury Objective: List the muscles of the body and understand basic muscle types. An 11 year old boy who has played baseball (pitcher) for the last 7 years is seen by an orthopedist. The athlete complains of intense pain in the shoulder joint that worsens when […]

A plant with yellow flowers was crossed with a plant with red flowers. All of the numerous offspring had red flowers. What does this show about the genotype of the parental plant with yellow flowers? It is homozygous dominant. It is heterozygous dominant. It is homozygous recessive or heterozygous. It […]

Q. 1. Alleles might be explained as: a. similar forms of two different loci b. alike forms of two different genes c. Alternative forms of a single gene d. Alternative forms of two different loci 2. A mutation which produces a change from wild type to an abnormal phenotype is […]

Question: The OMIM description on “Genetic Mapping of Alkaptonuria” can be interpreted to say: The alkaptonuria gene was genetically mapped to 3q2 at 16cM away from the sucrase-isomaltast deficiency gene in inbred families with some members manifesting both conditions. Statistically the alkaptonuria causing mutant gene and the sucrase-isomaltase deficiency-causing mutant gene […]