Non-Mendelian Inheritance Quiz

Which of the following is NOT a rule of Mendelian inheritance?

What is the term for the inheritance pattern that breaks the Mendelian rule of genes being passed unaltered from generation to generation?

What is the term for the inheritance pattern that describes the influence of the mother's genotype on the offspring's phenotype, even if the offspring does not inherit the mother's specific alleles?

What is the term for the inheritance pattern that describes how different alleles are expressed depending on which parent they came from?

Which of the following is NOT a type of non-Mendelian inheritance?

What is the Barr body?

What is the Lyon hypothesis?

What is the mechanism of dosage compensation in mammals?

What is the relationship between the Lyon hypothesis and the Barr body?

Which of the following is NOT a key process involved in dosage compensation in mammals?

What is the term used to describe a cell that contains both normal and mutated chloroplasts?

In the inheritance of organelles, which gamete typically contributes the majority of the cytoplasm to the zygote in heterogamous species?

Which type of chloroplasts result in a white phenotype in the leaves?

What is the primary reason for maternal inheritance of organelles like chloroplasts?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of paternal leakage?

What is the phenotypic consequence of heteroplasmy in terms of chloroplasts?

How many paternal mitochondria are typically inherited for every 100,000 maternal mitochondria per generation in mice?

What is the term used to describe the inheritance pattern where the maternal parent is the primary source of organelles?

In which of the following organisms is mitochondrial inheritance usually maternal?

Which of the following organisms exhibits biparental inheritance of mitochondria?

In Chlamydomonas, which mating type transmits chloroplasts to the offspring?

Which of the following is NOT a factor contributing to mitochondrial DNA damage?

Mitochondrial diseases are typically chronic degenerative disorders affecting cells requiring high levels of which molecule?

What term describes the presence of a mixture of normal and mutated mitochondria within a cell?

Which of the following mitochondrial genes is NOT associated with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy?

Which of the following statements about mitochondrial inheritance is TRUE?

Which of the following statements about mutations in mitochondrial DNA is FALSE?

According to the endosymbiosis theory, which type of bacteria is believed to be the ancestor of mitochondria?

If a female water snail with a genotype of dd mates with a male water snail with a genotype of DD, what will be the phenotype of their offspring?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of maternal effect?

What is the main reason why the phenotype of a water snail offspring is determined by the mother's genotype?

Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of maternal effect?

How does maternal effect break the first rule of Mendelian inheritance?

What is the significance of the study performed by Boycott, Diver, and Eastwood in the 1920s regarding water snails?

Which of the following is TRUE about the genes involved in maternal effect?

What is the primary reason why maternal effect is considered a non-Mendelian pattern of inheritance?

What is the term used for the phenomenon where only one allele of a gene is expressed, regardless of whether it's inherited from the mother or father?