Exam 5: Non-Mendelian Inheritance

Dosage compensation offsets the problems associated with differences in the number of chromosomes in many species.

The inheritance of leaf pigmentation in the four-o'clock plant Mirabilis jalapa is an example of .

Which of the following is primarily responsible for the maternal effect?

What is a disease associated with extra nuclear inheritance?

If the sperm cell contributes mitochondria to the oocyte, it is called .

Who originally identified a highly condensed structure in the interphase of nuclei?

What is thought to be the origin of mitochondria? Of chloroplasts?

The Lyon hypothesis attempts to explain the molecular mechanism of .

mtDNA contains all of the genes necessary for the complete function of mitochondrial metabolism.

Both parents usually imprint the same gene.

Differentially methylated domains (DMDs) are associated with which of the following?

Where does erasure and imprinting occur?

Chlamydomonas was the used as the model organism for the study of .

What is the molecular mechanism for imprinting a gene?

In the Igf-2 allele, which chromosome is imprinted? Which is expressed?

In the gene that affects snail coiling, the is responsible for the phenotype of the offspring.

Epigenic inheritance may occur at which of the following stages?

Expression of would inhibit X-inactivation.

A modification that occurs to a nuclear gene that alters gene expression, but not permanently, is called inheritance.

What encodes the toxin paramecin in Paramecia Aurelia?