Question

I had posted these questions before but no one helped me so ill repeat the questions: Please Help Me :)

1. would karyotypes from the same family look similar? Explain.

2. Provide one reason as to why it would be useful to compare karyotypes of family

Answer 1

I'm sorry, but Jiskha doesn't have any regular biology tutors. These sites may help you, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyotype

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/karyotypes

Answer 2

1.Karyotypes are just the stained chromosomes from the nucleus of a cell. Only large abnormalities are picked up, such as differences in chromosome number. They are not supposed to be like DNA which would be similar to the parents.

2. -calculate the chance of affected people of the people
-karyotyping of that family will help u diagonse the probability of the diseased members

Hope that helps ps: check the sites Ms.Sue has gave you :)