NEET Biology question

Disorder inherited as Mendel's law of inheritance called

(A)Mendelian disorderCorrect
(B)Chromosomal disorder
(C)Maternal inheritance
(D)Polygenic inheritance

Answer: (A)

Solution

A disorder that follows Mendel's principles of inheritance (being caused by alteration or mutation of a single gene, and transmitted to offspring in dominant or recessive fashion) is, by definition, called a Mendelian disorder (examples include haemophilia,

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