Maternal

... surrounds the egg cell. It has concentrated all of its mitocondria to the end where there is the flagella for motility. The egg cell is full of maternal mRNA that are silenced till fertilization. It also has vesicles just under the plasma membrane that will release enzymes upon one sperm contact ...

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... in all offspring 1/4 Ww, 1/4 Ww, 1/4 Ww, 1/4 Ww, or all Ww. 100% dominant heterozygous widow's peak. 4.Ww (Fred: paternal alleles) X Ww (Wilma: maternal alleles) cross wil produce: 1/4 WW, 1/4 Ww, 1/4 Ww, and 1/4 ww: phenotype resulting in 3/4 widow's peak and 1/4 straight hair line: thus 75% ...

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... I want calculate the following heritabilities by means of both these regressions: 1. Paternal grandfather- male grandoffspring regression 2. Maternal grandfather- male grandoffspring regression For traits codified by genes located in the autosomes, I know that I would have to multiply the ...

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It is a form of epigenetics, but in a sexual way . . .well paternal or maternal actually. Here is a great website to check out for genomic imprinting: http://www.geneimprint.com/site/home I also wanted to point out that there is alot of maternal mRNA that get ...

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... called tetrad. Is this means that bivalent is also tetrad? My text book state that homologous chromosome consist of 2 chromosome(1 paternal, 1 maternal). A tetrad consists of 2 homologous chromosomes, each made up of 2 sister chromatid. Is that means tetrad consists of 4 chromatid and each ...

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