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Q: A young couple went to see a genetic counselor because each had a sibling with cystic fibrosis.…

A: (a) The probability of the female of this couple is a carrier: If the female of this couple has a…

Q: You are a genetic counselor and you meet with a couple who are planning to have a baby. Fill in the…

A: Note: Solved only Question 4 (As asked in the question). Given: Cystic fibrosis is a disorder caused…

Q: Victoria’s youngest child, Beatrice, gave birth to one daughter, one normal son, and two hemophilic…

A: All the individuals obtain one allele from the father and one from the mother. Two alleles or…

Q: Create a hypothetical person and situation as a real life example to illustrate your position. Who…

A: Z is a 31-year-old male and he wishes to marry. He is the only child of his parents. His fiancé B…

Q: Jim and Pam would like to have a baby, but they know that albinism (an autosomal recessive disease)…

A: Albinism is a rare group of genetic disorders that cause the skin, hair, or eyes to have little or…

Q: Please explain why sex linked recessive traits are inherited by the son from his mother. If a mother…

A: Sex Linked Recessive Traits   The disease appears almost always in males whose mothers are…

Q: The questions below all refer to the following pedigree. The locus for allele D/d determines how…

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Q: Joe has classic hemophilia, an X-linked recessive disease. Could Joe have inherited the gene for…

A: Genes carry coded genetic information in the form of specific nucleotide sequences. This specific…

Q: Describe how Morgan’s results deviated from Mendelian inheritance and led to the discovery of a new…

A: Linkage: Defines how two genes located on the same chromosomes (close to each other) are inherited.…

Q: Geneticists are concerned about three different genetic conditions present within their family.…

A: Autosomal dominant A = achondroplasia  a = average height  AA and Aa = affected aa = normal    X…

Q: In humans, hemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disease, and the gene is located on the X…

A: Answer: HEMOPHILIA = It is the chromosomal disorder , which sex-linked recessive disease, men are…

Q: Imagine that you are a genetic counselor, and a couple planning to start a family comes to you for…

A: During gamete formation, two alleles of a gene segregate into different gametes. This is based on…

Q: Ralnh has type B blood and his wife Rachel has type A blood. They are very shocked to hear that…

A: The genes are the primary unit of life. The nucleotide sequence of the genes are responsible for…

Q: Amanda Sefton (Daytripper) has normal fingers and toes and normal color vision. Her mother is normal…

A: As father of Amanda is colour blind, so Amanda may be a carrier of the disease, so her genotype for…

Q: Is this pedigree dominant or recessive? Autosomal or sex-linked? What is also usual about this…

A: The pedigree is the genetical analysis that gives us idea about the inheritance pattern of a…

Q: Ann's family has a history of cystic fibrosis, a recessive genetic disease. In the pedigree, family…

A: A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance of phenotypes of a particular…

Q: pedigree when creating this one. Ray and Elaine were married in 1970. They both had normal vision.…

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Q: Is the inheritance pattern indicated by the shaded symbols in this pedigree consistent with the…

A: Inheritance or heredity is passing on one trait from the parents to the progeny by either asexual or…

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A: The genes located on the nuclear chromosomes obey the Mendelian law of inheritance. In the human…

Q: Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a sex-linked recessive disorder characterized by a progressive loss…

A: Duchene muscular dystrophy is a X linked recessive trait. It is characterized by progressive loss of…

Q: A couple who is heterozygous for simple recessive albinism (no epistasis here) plans on having 2…

A: The parents of a child having autosomal recessive albinism have one copy of the mutated gene. The…

Q: A man and a woman do not have hemophilioa, but the womans father did. (Hemophilia is X-linked…

A: (Note: According to the given guidelines, we are supposed to answer only one question. Please repost…

Q: Colorblindness is a recessive x-linked trait. Which genotype represents a male with normal vision?…

A: Color blindness occurs when you are unable to see colors in a normal way. It is also known as colour…

Q: The questions below all refer to the following pedigree. The locus for allele D/d determines how…

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Q: Your sister who taking the genetics course, approaches you with a problem set to solve and seeks you…

A: (a) Autosomal recessive can not be excluded.  (b) Autosomal dominant. → Can be excluded.  (C)…

Q: Given the pedigree below, answer the following questions. Note that filled symbols represent…

A: Typically, at most one member of the family has a genetic condition, and analyzing the pedigree can…

Q: Mary has hemophilia, an X-linked recessive trait. From which of the following individuals could Mary…

A: Introduction : Hemophilia is an X-linked recessive trait . It is a genetic condition in which the…

Q: By looking at the following pedigree can you conclude why is it an X-linked recessive? If yes, why…

A: In the generation 1 of the pedigree, the mother is affected & the father is unaffected.

Q: A young couple went to see a genetic counselor because each had a sibling with cystic fibrosis.…

A: Cystic fibrosis is a condition that occurs due to a genetic disorder. Those who have the disease…

Q: How can NF1 be spontaneous? Include the following terms: -genotype - phenotype - homozygous -…

A: NF1 or neurofibromatosis I is a Mendelian genetic disorder that results due to mutation in the NF1…

Q: Hillary is 8 years old and has neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, also known as Batten disease. It is…

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Q: The following pedigree shows inheritance of Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic disorder that…

A: Huntington disease is a progressive brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, emotional…

Q: Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a sex-linked recessive disorder characterized by a progressive loss…

A: DNA is the genetic material in most living organisms. It is the information hub of the cell that…

Q: The pedigree on the right shows the inheritance pattern for an X-linked recessive disorder. The…

A: X linked recessive disorders are those which shows X linked recessive inheritance pattern. In these…

Q: Single nucleotide polymorphisms do not show mendelian segregation through meiosis. Is this true or…

A: Non-Mendelian inheritance is a pattern of inheritance in which the traits governed by alleles do not…

Q: human disease known as cystic fibrosis is inherited as a recessive trait. Two unaffected individuals…

A: Cystic fibrosis  It is a autosomal recessive genetic disorder in which affected organism produce…

Q: The next three questions go together. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a disease caused by a…

A: DMD trait is present on X chromosome that means DMD is an x-linked disorder. In this case males have…

Q: Please define the following terms: Gene Allele  Dominant  Recessive Homozygous Heterozygous

A: Genetics is a branch of biology, which focuses on the study of genes, genetic variations, and…

Q: Is the blueness a recessive trait why and why not  What was Elizabeth smith only possible genotype…

A: In genetics, a gene consists of two alleles. One allele which masks the effect of other allele is…

Q: Does the pedigree below appear to show a dominant trait or a recessive trait? What patterns did you…

A: Pedigree chart represents the genetics and genomics of the individuals. It shows the transmission of…

Q: If our DNA contains all the information about who we are, how can something that does not involve…

A: Introduction: The term "phenotype" refers to the observable physical properties of an organism. An…

Q: Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that causes an abnormal production of mucus which in turn can…

A: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a disease caused by a mutation in a protein in the body. Cystic fibrosis is…

Q: The allele for color blindness is carried on the X chromosome. Making color blindness a recessive…

A: Color blindness is an X- linked recessive disorder, where a person fails to distinguish between red…

Q: John and Sue are expecting a child, but are concerned about a rare autosomal recessive disease that…

A: It should be noted that John’s father and Sue’s mother are both carriers of the disease as they are…

Q: A newly-married couple is thinking of having children. They are worried about their child having…

A: CYSTIC FIBROSIS It is an inherited disorder that caused due to defect in chloride transport.…

Q: Colorblindness is an X-linked recessive trait. If a color blind woman is married to a man with…

A: Given: Colorblindness is an X-linked recessive trait. A color blind woman married a man with normal…

Q: The questions below all refer to the following pedigree. The locus for allele D/d determines how…

A: In genetics, the genes are the hereditary units of life. It contains two alternative forms called…

Q: Amanda Sefton (Daytripper) has normal fingers and toes and normal color vision. Her mother is normal…

A: Syndactyly is an autosomal dominant condition.

Q: The pedigree shows a family in which several members have suffered from one and the same disease…

A: A pedigree is a pictorial representation of inheritance of a trait across generations in a family.