Question
Diseases inherited in this fashion cannot be passed from father to son. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this mode of inheritance. Diseases inherited in this manner, such as hemophilia, tend to skew heavily towards affected males who only need one affected gene.
ANSWER: X-linked recessive inheritance [do NOT accept or prompt on “recessive”]
[10e] Some conditions are only passed from the mother due to being inherited in the genome of this double-membraned organelle that contains the electron transport chain.
ANSWER: mitochondria [or mitochondrion]
[10h] Mitochondrial diseases may have variable degrees of severity due to this situation in which multiple mitochondrial genomes are present in a cell, allowing the presence of normal and mutated mitochondria.
ANSWER: heteroplasmy
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 57% | 14% |
Data
| Cornell Earth | Columbia Ly-α | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell Fire | Cornell Wind | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT | Rochester A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |