Exam 8: DNA Detective: Complex Patterns of Inheritance and Dna Profiling

A DNA fingerprint of a suspect doesn't match a DNA fingerprint from a blood sample taken at a crime scene. What can you conclude?

A person with hemophilia lacks the pleiotropic gene that codes for the protein called clotting factor VIII. What effects will this have on a person with hemophilia?

What is the ability of a gene to cause multiple effects on a phenotype?

A patient with which blood type can receive blood from any donor?

A woman with type AB blood and a man with type O blood have a child. Which type of blood could the child have?

Which item is used to produce genetic fingerprints of people?

On what basis does gel electrophoresis separate DNA segments?

What are the chances that a hemophiliac male and an unaffected female could have a baby that is a hemophiliac male?

Which characteristic applies to a normal individual who is a carrier for an X-linked trait such as hemophilia?

What pattern of inheritance results in Type AB blood?

In humans, what ordinarily determines the sex of the offspring?

What does the acronym VNTR mean?

For what purpose is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) used?

What is a family tree that is used to follow human matings that have already occurred?

What enzyme is used to synthesize daughter strands of DNA during PCR?

What genetic information is indicated by describing a person as having hemophilia?

What parental blood type would not be able to produce a child with type O blood?

What pattern of inheritance applies to a woman with type A blood who has the alleles IA and i?

Why is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) so useful for DNA fingerprinting?

In addition to the environment, what genetic factor affects human bone size and structure?