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What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan
Edition 2ISBN: 978-1464102448What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan
Edition 2ISBN: 978-1464102448 Exercise 10
Your friend explains to you that her father has hemophilia, a genetic disorder that affects the process of blood clotting, but her mother does not.
a) Knowing that the inheritance pattern for this disorder is sex-linked, explain to your friend why it is more common for males to inherit a sex-linked trait.
b) Using a Punnett square, indicate the probability that a brother of your friend would have hemophilia, assuming that her mother carries two functional copies of the gene involved in this sex-linked recessive disorder. Explain your answer.
a) Knowing that the inheritance pattern for this disorder is sex-linked, explain to your friend why it is more common for males to inherit a sex-linked trait.
b) Using a Punnett square, indicate the probability that a brother of your friend would have hemophilia, assuming that her mother carries two functional copies of the gene involved in this sex-linked recessive disorder. Explain your answer.
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What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan
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