Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2 ) is partly hereditary and, if uncontrolled, can lead to kidney disease and heart failure and an increased risk of stroke and blindness. From this information alone, you could say that DM2 is an example of ________
A) codominance B) polygenes C) pleiotropy D) epistasis
Answer: C
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A) the width of a strand of DNA B) the length of a plant cell C) the length of a chicken egg D) a typical prokaryotic cell E) the size of a ribosome
________ cells may differentiate into any cell or tissue type
A) Pluripotent B) Omnipotent C) Totipotent D) Hyperpotent E) Potent
In humans, assume that the allele for brown eyes is dominant and the allele for blue eyes is recessive. If two browneyed
individuals have a child with blue eyes, that means:a. both parents are homozygous for brown eyes. b. both parents are heterozygous for eye color. c. there is a 1/4 chance that their second child will have brown eyes. d. there is a 1/2 chance that their second child will have blue eyes. e. there is a 3/4 chance that their second child will have blue eyes
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a. profundal b. intertidal c. abyssal d. littoral e. limnetic