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Title: What type of inheritance pattern is exhibited by the trait being analyzed in this pedigree?
Post by: sila on Mar 31, 2018
What type of inheritance pattern is exhibited by the trait being analyzed in this pedigree?
 
  a. autosomal dominant
  b. autosomal recessive
  c. X-linked recessive

Question 2

Prions are composed of
 
  a. DNA.
  b. RNA.
  c. protein.
  d. DNA and protein.
  e. DNA, RNA, and protein.


Title: What type of inheritance pattern is exhibited by the trait being analyzed in this pedigree?
Post by: grubbingrouch on Mar 31, 2018
Answer to q. 1

a

Answer to q. 2

C; Prions are infectious agents made of proteins. They seem to damage neural tissue by causing similar proteins in the brain to assume the prion conformation. Thus they cause a disease without using either RNA or DNA to provide information for the disease process.


Title: What type of inheritance pattern is exhibited by the trait being analyzed in this pedigree?
Post by: sila on Mar 31, 2018
Nice!


Title: What type of inheritance pattern is exhibited by the trait being analyzed in this pedigree?
Post by: grubbingrouch on Mar 31, 2018
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