1. Determining Inheritance using Punnett Squares

A Punnett is a means to determine the genetic inheritance of offspring if the genotypes of both parents are known. Using Punnett squares answer the questions about the following scenarios. In order to properly answer some of the questions more than 1 Punnett square might be needed. With every Punnett square provide a key for your alleles.

1. Neurofibromatosis (NF), sometimes called von Recklinghausen disease, is one of the most common genetic disorders. It affects roughly 1 in 3,000 people. It is seen equally in every racial and ethnic group throughout the world. At birth or later, the affected individual may have six or more large tan spots on the skin. Such spots may increase in size and number and become darker. Small benign tumors called neurofibromas may occur under the skin or in the muscles. They are made up of nerve cells and other cell types. NF is a dominant disorder. Jane has NF and wants to figure out what the chances are that her children will inherit the disorder if her husband, John, does not have NF.

2. The condition of sickle cell anemia is recessive and only the homozygous recessive individuals are adversely affected. Interestingly, heterozygous individuals have increased resistance to Malaria which is caused by a Plasmodium parasite that infects red blood cells. A heterozygous individual has red blood cells that are minimally affected but are altered enough so that Plasmodium cannot infect the cells. This is one reason why this allele persists in the population – in the heterozygous state it gives the individual an advantage for survival in some environments.

Veronica, who has the sickle cell condition, and Mason who does not have the condition have a child. They are worried about the having a child with sickle cell anemia and malaria because they are moving to a part of Africa where the Plasmodium is common. Who in this family should be worried about sickle cell anemia and contracting malaria?

3. All newborn babies are tested to see if they have a defective enzyme which cannot break down the amino acid phenylalanine. If phenylalanine accumulates in the blood then high levels can cause mental retardation. The condition is called phenylketonuria or PKU. PKU is a recessive allele and only homozygous recessive individuals are affected. A family living in a country where PKU testing is not done wanted to know if they should have their baby in the US. The pregnant mother has a parent who has the PKU condition and the father also has one parent with the condition. Neither the pregnant mother nor the father has the condition. Draw a punnett square demonstrating the likelihood that this new baby will inherit PKU and discuss why or why not the parents should have the baby in the US. (K = dominant, non-disease allele; k = recessive, disease allele)
4. Huntington’s disorder is caused by a dominant allele. Heterozygous individuals with one copy of this allele suffer from progressive degeneration of the nervous system and premature death. The phenotype or symptoms do not appear until the affected individual reaches ~40 years of age. This is after child-bearing age, so people have children before they know they are carrying the affected gene allele.

Jermaine is very worried about passing the dominant Huntington’s gene allele to his children. If Jermaine’s father has the Huntington’s Disorder, his mother does not, and his wife has no history of Huntington’s, does Jermaine need to be tested for Huntington’s before he has children? Note: homozygous dominant is lethal and a fetus will not survive. Draw a punnett square representing the Jermaine’s father and mother, to determine his chances of carrying the Huntington’s disease allele. (H = dominant, disease allele; h = recessive, non-disease allele)

What is the probability that Jermaine has the Huntington’s disease allele? Should he be tested?

If Jermaine is positive for the Huntington’s allele, what are the chances he will pass it on to his children? Do a second punnett square to illustrate this cross.

Botulinum toxin (Botox) is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It prevents the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from axon endings at the neuromuscular junction and thus causes flaccid paralysis. Infection with the bacterium causes the disease botulism. Give the use and the dangers of this toxin.

why are people with c8 deficiencies able to fight infections?

How do organisms come to live on newly formed volcanic islands?

What new methods are required to effectively assess the risk of resistance ?

How abiotic factors can influence populations in a way that is independent of their local population density? (min. 300 words)

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1) do you think that parasites and pathogens have the potential to control natural populations significantly? Why? How?. Provide an example. (min. 300 and max 500).

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What factors increase the risk of resistance to antibiotics in animal?

What chemical reaction and chemical ideas(chemistry principle) that apply to "Anaemia treatment for low iron levels in blood "?? justify your answer with equations or example..

How can risks of resistance to antibiotics be assessed?

A zinc ion in the active site of an enzyme can speed up the reaction by:

A. Making a bound water molecule a more powerful nucleophile by drawing electron density toward itself and facilitating deprotonation of the water

B. Orienting substrates for reaction

C. Stabilizing an anionic intermediate

D. All of these

E. None of these

The role of serine at the active site of serine proteases is to act as a ___ catalyst, while the histidine residue serves as an ___ catalyst.

A. acid-base, covalent

B. anionic; ionic

C. covalent; acid-base

D. strong; weak

E. weak; strong

The active site of an enzyme is being investigated by mutagenesis to determine the stability of the enzyme conformation following substrate binding. A leucine is replaced by glycine. This change will:

A. Destabilize the enzyme

B. Stabilize the enzyme

C. Have no effect on the enzyme

Draw the pedigree for the question below, take a picture or a scan, and upload it here.

Text of the question: Defects on the SOX21 gene are suspected to be Y-linked and to cause baldness in men. A bald man and woman with normal hair have two sons and two daughters, and both sons are bald. The two daughters have each two sons, and none are bald. The man's sons also have two sons each, and all four are bald. Draw a pedigree for this family using standard symbols.