Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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Author: Robert J. Brooker Professor Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 26CONQ
In humans, a very rare dominant allele that causes the little finger to be crooked has a penetrance of 80%. In other words, 80% of heterozygotes carrying the allele will have a crooked little finger. If a homozygous unaffected person has children with a heterozygote carrying this mutant allele, what is the probability that an offspring will have a little finger that is crooked?
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Ch. 4.1 - 1. Which of the following statements is true?
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