Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Introduction to Genetic Analysis
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ISBN: 9781464109485
Author: Anthony J.F. Griffiths, Susan R. Wessler, Sean B. Carroll, John Doebley
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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To determine: The genotypes that are probable for the mother of the color-blind man.

Introduction: The color blindness is carried on by a faulty color vision gene on the X chromosome as a recessive disorder. Also, this marks about one in ten men and also has two forms.

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To determine: The probabilities that the first child will be a color-blind boy.

Introduction: Red or green color blindness is carried from mother to son at the 23rd chromosome, which is identified as the sex chromosome as it further illustrates as sex chromosome.

c.

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To determine: The proportion that can be estimated to be color-blind of any girl.

Introduction: A color-blind boy cannot inherit a color-blind ‘gene’ from the father, yet his father is color blind as his father can pass an X chromosome to the daughters.

d.

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To determine: The proportion that can be expected to have a normal color vision of all the children.

Introduction: The color blind 'gene' is conducted on one of the X chromosomes. As men possess only one X chromosome, and if his X chromosome transfers the color blind 'gene' that is 'X,' he will be color blind XY.

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