Biology Questions and Answers

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Biology Questions and Answers



  1. What are holandric genes?


Holandric genes are genes situated in


the nonhomolochromosome. Holandric genes conditiongous region of the Y (^)
phenotypes that emerge only in men
since individnot present in their X chromuals of the female sex dosomes o
genes from thof the Y chromosome nonhomoloe (existentgous p only inortion
men). A widely known holandric gene is
the one that conditions hpinnae (hair in the ears), a pypertrichosishenotype (^)
inherited from fathers to sons through
the Y chromosome.



  1. What is sex-influenced
    dominance?


Sex-influphenomenon in which tenced dominance is thhe manifestatione (^)
of a phenotype of a gene in
heterozygosity dethe individual. For exampends on the sex ofple, hereditary (^)
baldness is a dominant phenotypical
form if recessive fothe individrm if thual is male ae individual isnd it is a
female.
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