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Barr Body & Lyon Hypothesis MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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In the following questions, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of reason (R)
(1) If both Assertion & Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion, then mark A
(2) If both Assertion & Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion, then mark B
(3) If the Assertion is a true statement but the Reason is false, then mark C
(4) If both Assertion and Reason are false statements, then mark D
Assertion: A barr body is a sign that one of the X chromosomes has been inactivated in females.
Reason: To provide dosage adjustment between males and females, one of the two X chromosomes in females is randomly selected for inactivation during embryonic development.
What is Dosage Compensation?
What is a Barr Body?
Which of the following statements is true regarding the Lyon Hypothesis?
Which of the following organisms does not exhibit X chromosome inactivation?
What is X chromosome inactivation?
In a female human cell with one Barr body, how many active X chromosomes are present?
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Dosage Compensation, Barr Body & Lyon Hypothesis
- In man it has been found that Y-chromosomes are genetically inert in comparison to the X-chromosomes and other chromosomes and only a few genes are present in the human Y-chromosome.
- As per the chromosomal make-up of human male and female, females contain a higher dose of functional gene containing chromosome than males (Female chromosome numbers = 44 + XX and Male chromosome number = 44 + XY).
- The geneticists have observed that in some cases, female homozygous for the genes in the X-chromosomes do not express a trait more markedly than do hemizygous males.
- So, it must be a mechanism of “dosage compensation”, through which the effective dosage of genes of the two sexes is made equal or nearly so.
- This mechanism of compensating the differential doses of functional sex chromosomes in male and female human is effected by the inactivation of one X-chromosome in the normal female.
- The genetically inactive X- chromosome or condensed X-chromosome is called heterochromatin or sex-chromatin body or Barr body.
- Of the two X-chromosomes in females, which X-chromosome becomes inactive is a matter of chance, but it should be remembered that once an X- chromosome has become inactivated, all cells arising from that cell will keep the same inactive X-chromosome.
- The inactive-X hypothesis or the Lyon’s hypothesis or the Dosage Compensation is widely known from 1961 which states that only one of the two X chromosomes in the homogametic sex is functional while the other condenses and is inactivated.
- The X inactivated in some cells would be that from the father, in other cells it would be that from the mother.
- Hence any tissue in the body of a woman would be a mosaic of cells which would show dominance of all genes having diffusible products.
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