35 Questions
Which type of inheritance is associated with the formation of lesions on the skin?
Autosomal dominant
In autosomal dominant inheritance, if a father has the disease and the mother is unaffected, what is the probability that their child will inherit the disease?
50%
If a father has type O blood and his son has type A blood, what are the possible blood types of his son's mother?
Types A, B, or O
Which of the following is an example of a sex-influenced trait?
Baldness in XY carriers
Which term describes a situation where the phenotype produced by a variant of one gene blocks or masks the phenotype produced by alleles of another gene?
Epistasis
What is the phenotypic ratio expected in the F2 generation of a dihybrid cross when two genes affect different traits?
9:3:3:1
Which of the following is an example of a sex-limited trait?
Ovary development in XX carriers
Which of the following is an example of genomic (parental) imprinting?
Angelman syndrome
What is the role of a dominant allele at one locus in a dominant epistasis interaction?
It masks the expression of a recessive allele at another locus
Which of the following accurately describes homoplasmy?
Every mitochondrial genome carries the causative mutation
What is heteroplasmy?
Contain a mixed population of normal and mutant genomes in each cell
Which haplogroup is mentioned in the text?
U5a1b
How old is the maternal haplogroup U5a1b?
8,500 years old
What does epistasis refer to?
The phenomenon where one gene masks or modifies the effect of another gene
What is the impact of gene duplication in inheritance patterns?
The impact of gene duplication in inheritance patterns
Which of the following is an application of Bayesian inference?
Biology
What is the posterior probability denoted as in Bayesian inference?
P(H|E)
What does Bayesian inference compute the posterior probability according to?
Bayes' theorem
According to the text, what is the purpose of parameterizing the space of models?
To represent the distribution of belief over the model space
In the context of the text, what does the vector θ represent?
The parameter space
What type of distributions are expressed in this section, according to the text?
Continuous distributions
Which term describes the probability of observing evidence given a hypothesis?
Likelihood
What is the term for the probability of a hypothesis given the observed evidence?
Posterior probability
What does Bayes' rule state?
P(H|E) = P(E|H) * P(H)
What is the term for the probability distribution representing the current state of belief for a process?
Event space
Which field is Bayesian inference an important technique in?
Statistics
What is the posterior probability denoted as in Bayesian inference?
P(H|E)
What is the purpose of parameterizing the space of models in Bayesian inference?
To determine the most probable hypothesis
According to the text, what is the purpose of parameterizing the space of models?
To represent the distribution of belief over the parameter space
What type of distributions are expressed in this section, according to the text?
Continuous distributions
What does epistasis refer to?
A situation where the phenotype produced by a variant of one gene blocks or masks the phenotype produced by alleles of another gene
Which term describes the probability of observing evidence given a hypothesis?
Likelihood
What is the term for the probability distribution representing the current state of belief for a process?
Prior probability
What does Bayes' rule state?
P(H|E) = P(E|H) * P(H)
What is the probability denoted as in Bayesian inference?
P(H|E)
Test your knowledge on genetic inheritance and the effect of the environment on phenotype. Learn about duplicate genes, dihybrid ratios, and how dominant alleles can determine characteristics such as fruit shape.
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