Quiz: How Well Do You Know About Allelic Variation?

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, color blindness, and hemophilia A are

• X-linked dominant

• X-linked recessive

• Mitochondrial inheritance

• Autosomal dominant

• Autosomal recessive

Sickle Cell, phenylketonuria, and cystic fibrosis are

• Autosomal recessive

• X-linked recessive

• Autosomal dominant

• X-linked dominant

• Mitochondrial inheritance

_________________ inheritance predominantly or exclusively affects males, but there is NO male-to-male transmission.

________________ inheritance is transmitted only through mothers.

Huntington disease and neurofibromatosis are

• Autosomal recessive

• Autosomal dominant

• X-linked recessive

• Mitochondrial inheritance

• X-linked dominant

When all daughters of an affected father are affected, the mode of transmission is

• Autosomal recessive

• Autosomal dominant

• Mitochondrial

• X-linked dominant

• X-linked recessive

RFLP, VNTR, STR, and SNP are

• Classes of DNA polymorphisms

• Used for paternity testing

• Types of HPLC machines

• Types of mutations

• Classes of proteins