A genetic disorder is a disease or syndrome that is caused by an abnormality in an individual DNA. Abnormalities can range from a small mutation in a single gene to the addition or subtraction of an entire chromosome or even a set of chromosomes. Genetic disorders are of two types namely, Mendelian disorders and chromosomal disorders.

(i) The science of improvement of existing human race by improving the environmental conditions is called euthenics.
(ii) It can be achieved by subjecting them to better nutrition, better unpolluted ecological conditions, better education and sufficient medical facilities.

(i) Pedigree is a "family tree", drawn with standard genetic symbols, showing the inheritance pathway for specific phenotypic characters.
(ii) Pedigree analysis is the study of traits as they have appeared in a given family line for several past generations.

1. In this method of sex determination, the homogametic male possesses two 'X' chromosomes as in certain insects and certain vertebrates like fishes, reptiles and birds producing a single type of gamete.
2. The female sex consists of a single 'Y' chromosome. Thus the females are heterogametic and produce two types of eggs.
3. To avoid confusion with the XX-XO and XX-XY trues of sex determination, the alphabets 'Z' and 'W 'are used here instead of X and Y respectively.
4. Heterogametic females are of two types, ZO-ZZ type and ZW-ZZ type.

(i) Fisher and Race hypothesis: 
Rh factor involves three different pairs of alleles located on three different closely linked loci on the chromosome pair. This system is more commonly in use today, and uses the 'Cde' nomenclature.

2. In the above Figure, three pairs of Rh alleles (Cc, Dd and Ee) occur at 3 different loci on homologous chromosome pair- 1.
3. The possible genotypes will be one C or c, one D or d, one E or e from each chromosome
For e.g. CDE/cde; CdE/cDe; cde/cde; CDe/CdE etc.
4. All genotypes carrying a dominant 'D' allele will produce Rh positive phenotype and double recessive genotype 'dd' will give rise to Rh negative phenotype.
(ii) Wiener Hypothesis 
1. Wiener proposed the existence of eight alleles (R¹, R², R^O, R^Z, r, r¹, r¹¹, r^y) at a single Rh locus.
2. All genotypes carrying a dominant 'R allele' (R¹, R^2, R^O, R^Z) will produce 'Rh- positive' phenotype and double recessive genotypes (rr, rr¹, rr¹¹, rr^y) will give rise to Rh^- negative phenotype.