PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
Question
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Which of the following is an example of a GENOTYPE?
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25%
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Blue
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1:2:1
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Bb
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Finally, the genotype of an organism with two recessive alleles is called homozygous recessive. In the eye color example, this genotype is written bb.
Detailed explanation-2: -An individual that contains two copies of the same allele for a specific gene is homozygous. An individual that contains two different alleles of a gene is heterozygous. A cow that has two alleles for a red coat is homozygous (bb). A bull with two alleles for a black coat is homozygous (BB).
Detailed explanation-3: -A genotype is a scoring of the type of variant present at a given location (i.e., a locus) in the genome. It can be represented by symbols. For example, BB, Bb, bb could be used to represent a given variant in a gene.
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