Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition that causes a range of developmental problems including learning disabilities and cognitive impairment. Usually, males are more severely affected by this disorder than females because:  

A human kidney cell will have ___________ pairs of autosomes and __________ pair of sex chromosomes.

A ________________ cross involves organisms that are heterozygous for a single character, whereas a ______________cross involves organisms that are heterozygous for two characters.

A _________ mutation can originate during meiosis while a _________ mutation can originate during mitosis.  

The codons for asparagine are _____ and ______.

Phenotype refers to an organism’s:  

The ratio of the flower colors Mendel obtained in the F2 generation is 9:3: 3: 1

A person’s hands are exposed to sunrays every day and gradually it leads to the accumulation of mutations in its skin cells. This, in turn, leads to skin cancer in that area. Determine if these mutations will be passed on to the offspring. Give specific reason for your answer and also state the type of mutations that can be inherited and the ones that cannot be inherited.

People with sickle-cell trait are _________________(heterozygous/homozygous) for the sickle-cell allele.

The Out of the three types of RNA, it is __________ that actually has the code to make proteins.