Fill in the blanks and choose the correct option given below.
(i) Sickle-cell anaemia is caused by the substitution of
by
at 6 th position of the
globin chain of Haemoglobin.
(ii) In phenylketonuria, the individual lacks an enzyme that converts the amino acid phenylalanine into
.
(iii) Failure of segregation of chromatids during cell division cycle results in the grain or loss of a chromosome called
.
(iv) In
, there is an increase in a whole set of chromosome in an organism.
(v) Down ’ s syndrome is genetic disorder because of presence of an additional copy of chromosome number
.
(vi) In
syndrome, there is an additional copy of X-chromosome resulting into a karyotype of 47, XXY.
(vii) In
syndrome, there is an absence of one of the X-chromosome, i.e. 45 with XO.
(viii) The traits that are generally controlled by 3 or more genes are called
traits.
(ix) When single gene exhibit multiple phenotypic expression, it is called
gene.
(x) In honey bee, females are
having
chromsome and males are
having 16 chromosome. This is called
sex-determination system.
(xi) Colour blindness is
-linked
disorder. This defect is due to mutation in certain genes present in
chromosome.
(xii) Thalassemia is
-linked genes
and
on chromosome
of each parent.
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