Saturday, May 23, 2020

Topic: Genetics

Sub topic; principles of inheritance
Monohybrid inheritance

albinism
Albinism is absence of pigmentation melanin in human skin/ animals or plants. This pigmentation is responsible for dark colour of the skin. As a result the person has white hair, pink eyes and light skin. In plant are characterized by lack of chlorophyll
It is controlled by a recessive gene. Human showing this disorder must be homozygous recessive. Heterozygous are normal but career.
  
        
Examples
What will be the result of normal man who married an albino woman?
Solution: - 
Let gene for normal be A and Albino be a                 
             
 
Phenotype   -    all are normal (Heterozygous)