Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inherited disease caused by a recessive allele. Individuals with PKU have two recessive alleles and have very low levels of an enzyme that is needed to properly break down proteins. If a woman and her husband are both carriers and have three children, what is the probability of each of the following? Show your math. (Hint: You can represent your probabilities as fractions or decimals, but probabilities are always between 0 and 1) a. All three children are of normal phenotype.   b. One or more of the three children have the disease.   c.All three children have the disease.

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Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain biological inheritance that follows the rules and principles laid down by Gregor Mendel in 1865. The initial hypothesis was considered wrong, but other inheritance theories modified the concept of inheritance and thus genetics.