If a person is heterozygous for cystic fibrosis is married to someone who actually has the disease. What are the chances that their child will have CF?

Q: Jonah and Jana are siblings. Jonah has the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, caused by inheriting…

A: Given: Jonah and Jana are siblings. Jonah has the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis,caused by…

Q: If a child has an autosomal dominant disorder, what can be concluded about the parents? Explain…

A: Autosomal dominant disorder Autosomal dominant is one of many ways that a trait or disorder can be…

Q: What are the influences disease may have on emotional, mental, and physical development when a child…

A: Cystic fibrosis is a multi systemic life limiting disorder of genetics.It majorly impact the…

Q: If you cross a female carrier of hemophilia with a normal, healthy male, what are the chances of…

A: Hemophilia is the genetic disorder inherited in X-linked recessive pattern. It is a bleeding…

Q: Describe the individuals with the following chromosomal abnormalities: Trisomy at chromosome 21 XXY…

A: Chromosomes are the  condensed forms of chromatin seen during the cell division. They were…

Q: Hemophilia A is transmitted by an X-linked recessive gene.With an affected father, what is the…

A: Answer: Introduction: In X-linked recessive disorders, an affected father has a mutation in a gene…

Q: Type of Inheritance: I Explanation: Punnett Square: II 4 III 1 2 4

A: The mode of inheritance is a pattern of obtaining parentral alleles  or genes to the offsprings. The…

Q: How is prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome achieved?

A: Genetic disorders result from chromosomal abnormalities like Down syndrome and Turner syndrome. A…

Q: Is breast and ovarian cancer linked to Mendelian transmission?

A: Mendelian inheritance is a pattern of inheriting the characteristics of parents into their child by…

Q: A child with the "B positive” blood type is known to be a heterozygote at both the ABO blood type…

A: The ABO blood group is determined by the presence of specific antigen (glycoprotein molecule) on the…

Q: How is it possible for a baby to have type O blood if neither parent is type O?

A: Human genetics cannot be studied like plants and animals. This is mainly because of the absence of…

Q: A form of hemophilia is caused by a sex-linked (X-linked) recessive gene. A phenotypically normal…

A: 50 percent chances.

Q: Define about Jacobs Syndrome ?

A: There are 2 types of chromosomes- autosomes and sex chromosomes.  Sex chromosomes are responsible…

Q: 2 II 5 10 Probable pattern of inheritance: %3D

A: The genetic diseases are inherited from family. It could be x- linked or it could be autosomal.…

Q: Type of Inheritance: Explanation: Punnett Square:

A: Pedigree is the familal representation of a particular trait.  Half filled symbols depict the…

Q: A. In man, hemophilia, the "bleeder's disease" in which the time required for blood to clot is…

A: Hemophilia is a genetic disorder inherited through the sex-linked recessive X chromosome. It is the…

Q: Does a fetus homozygous for sicklecell hemoglobin (Hb S) have normal Hb F?

A: The formed elements of blood are white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Red blood cells…

Q: Explain the nondisjunction event that would cause a Turneror Klinefelter syndrome individual.

A: Nondisjunction refers to the failure of homologus chromosomes or sister chromatid to separate during…

Q: Two parents, without any family history of cystic fibrosis (CF), have a child with CF. A. What do…

A: Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease in which thick mucus is built up in the tubes, ducts and…

Q: On the basis of the information provided, is the inheritance of haemophilia:   autosomal or…

A: Hemophilia is a form of clotting deficiency due to lack of clotting factor 8 and 9. Most affected…

Q: what are treatments for polycystic overy syndrome?

A: Polycystic ovary syndrome is the condition of ovary in which the follicles are solidified to form…

Q: Travis and Marcy, a Caucasian couple, are pregnant with their first child. Travis has a prior child…

A: Given information :• Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder.• Travis a prior child, this…

Q: What is a down syndrome?

A: Humans are diploid organisms,i.e., humans will have two copies for each chromosome in the cells. One…

Q: What is sickle cell anemia? What is the true inheritance pattern? How did scientists discover the…

A: ▪︎Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which the body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells that…

Q: Explain the differences between an individual homozygous for the sickle hemoglobin allele (HbS/HbS)…

A: The sickle hemoglobin allele (HbS) is a genetic mutation that affects the structure of the…

Q: If a man with type O blood has a child with a woman who has type AB blood, what are the possible…

A: Blood type is determined by the presence or absence of certain antigens (proteins) on the surface of…

Q: a couple has two children. one has o blood and other has type B.what are the most likely genotype of…

A: A blood group is a classification of blood, based on the presence and absence of antibodies and…

Q: Explain why the incidence of Down syndrome increases with maternal age.

A: Introduction Down syndrome is a genetic condition produced by an additional whole or partial copy of…

Q: Identify a disorder caused by a chromosomal abnormality and how the disorder affects the individuals…

A: A chromosomal disorder is an anomaly, aberration, or mutation is a missing, extra, or irregular…

Q: If a person has albinism and dark skinned parents what is their genotype

A: Albinism results from the mutation in several genes. It follows the autosomal recessive inheritance…

Q: What is the genotype of individual J?

A: Ans. As per the question, the disease is an autosomal recessive disease. This means the disease can…

Q: Is it possible for any sonof a couple formed by ahemophilic man (XhY) and anonhemophilic…

A: Hemophilia is an inherited genetic disorder, which impairs the ability of the body to stop bleeding…

Q: A woman with type B blood has a child with type O blood. Whatare the possible genotypes and blood…

A: According to the question, a woman is blood type B and has a child with blood type O but her…

Hematology

Hematology is the branch of biology. Hematology is the medical field that deals with the treatment of blood disorders and cancers, such as hemophilia, leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia. Hematologists and hematopathologists are medical professionals who specialize in illnesses of the blood and its components.