Quiz: How Well Do You Know About Allelic Variation?

1. Mechanisms of mutation include

Nucleotide subsituttions

Deletions and insertions

Trinucleotide repeat expansions

A and C only

A, B, and C

2. Duchenne muscular dystrophy, color blindness, and hemophilia A are

X-linked dominant

X-linked recessive

Mitochondrial inheritance

Autosomal dominant

Autosomal recessive

3. Sickle Cell, phenylketonuria, and cystic fibrosis are

Autosomal recessive

X-linked recessive

Autosomal dominant

X-linked dominant

Mitochondrial inheritance

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6. Huntington disease and neurofibromatosis are

Autosomal recessive

Autosomal dominant

X-linked recessive

Mitochondrial inheritance

X-linked dominant

7. 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

8. RFLP, VNTR, STR, and SNP are

Classes of DNA polymorphisms

Used for paternity testing

Types of HPLC machines

Types of mutations

Classes of proteins