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A man who carries a harmful sex-linked (on the X chromosome) gene will pass the gene on to:

Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant condition where defective proteins kill brain cells. A man with Huntington’s whose mother did not have it has a son with a woman who also does not have it. What is the chance the son will have Huntington’s?

A recessive allele on the X chromosome causes color blindness. A non-colorblind woman (whose father is color blind) marries a color-blind man. What is the chance that their son will be color blind?

The longest period of time in a cell’s life cycle is:

DNA wraps around _______________ proteins to compact it to a 30 nm thickness, which fits inside the nucleus.

If a somatic cell of an organism has 32 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will be in a gamete of that same organism?

Most eukaryotic organisms are diploid and have two of every chromosome.   One pair of chromosomes is the sex-chromosomes, the other pairs of chromosomes are referred to as:

After mitotic cell division, if a parent cell has 8 chromosomes, each daughter cell will have ______chromosomes.

“Carriers” of the X-linked hemophiliac trait normally refers to:

In snakes, the albino condition is recessive to normal pigmentation.  An albino female snake mates with a normally pigmented male snake. Their offspring are: 3  normally pigmented: 1 albino   What is the genotype of the male parent snake?