Human Genetics Problem Set

Instructions: The following problems have multiple choice answers. Correct answers are reinforced with a brief explanation. Incorrect answers are linked to tutorials to help solve the problem.

1. Inheritance of an X-linked recessive trait
2. Using RFLP-analysis to hunt for human genes
3. Human Genome Project objectives
4. Inheritance pattern for Tay-Sachs disease
5. Interpreting a pedigree chart
6. Diagnosis of aneuploidy
7. Down's syndrome
8. X-linked traits
9. Sex determination in humans
10. Predicting inheritance pattern from pedigree analysis
11. Diagnosis of Klinefelter's syndrome
12. Somatic cell hybrids
13. Methods of human genetics
14. Barr body
15. Markers for mapping chromosomes
16. Polymorphism in Huntington's disease gene
17. Using PCR to detect genetic markers
18. DNA expressed as mRNA transcripts
19. Who is NOT the father of my grandson?

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