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Biology · Topic 53

Mendelian genetics and inheritance patterns

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Mendelian inheritance — mendel's laws / monohybrid crosses

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Sex-linked inheritance: colour blindness genetics

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Punnett square size for a dihybrid cross

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Test cross outcome for a homozygous dominant parent

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Sub-topic 5 2021 · National One-Eighth Premium

Mendel's laws and their characteristic offspring ratios

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Riddle: genetic linkage as an exception to independent assortment

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Incomplete dominance, dihybrid cross terminology, and test cross phenotypic ratio

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Processes to avoid for efficient controlled genetic crosses (true/false)

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Genotype and phenotype of offspring from a homozygous dominant x recessive cross (true/false)

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Riddle: mendel's law of segregation, from pea plant experiments

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Phenotype as an organism's observable traits

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Alleles as alternative molecular forms of the same gene

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Homozygous dominant genotype definition

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Dominant alleles and heritability of traits

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Phenotype probability from a homozygous dominant x homozygous recessive cross

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Genotypic ratio from a heterozygous x homozygous recessive cross

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Number of phenotypes from a heterozygous x homozygous recessive cross

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Codominance: both alleles expressed in a heterozygote

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Incomplete dominance: heterozygote shows an intermediate phenotype

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Genotype: the set of alleles inherited by an organism

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Problem of the day: sex-linked inheritance, gamete types from homo/heterogametic parents

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Sub-topic 22 2014 · National Quarterfinal Premium

Different genotype combinations can give the same phenotype (true/false)

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The dominant, not recessive, allele masks its counterpart (true/false)

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Phenotype does not fully determine genotype (true/false)

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Sub-topic 25 2017 · National Quarterfinal Premium

Abo blood-type inheritance: a child's phenotype needn't match either parent's

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Riddle: genetic linkage, an exception to independent assortment

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Abo blood grouping is derived from three alleles (ia, ib, i)

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True or false: the same phenotype may or may not be expressed from the same genotype

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True or false: phenotypes remain the same throughout the life of the individual

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True or false: phenotype contains hereditary characteristics passed to the next generation

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Riddle: the law of segregation, established via mendel's pea-plant experiments

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One of mendel's four basic concepts: a gene exists as more than one allele

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One of mendel's four basic concepts: allele pairs separate during meiotic gamete formation

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One of mendel's four basic concepts: every organism inherits two alleles per trait

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One of mendel's four basic concepts: paired alleles are often dominant and recessive

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