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*Please show math!!! A woman and a man are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for a rare genetic disease. If they have one child, what is the probability that he or she will be affected? If they have two children, what is the probability that at least one of them will be affected?

Name: please show math a woman and a man are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for a rare genetic disease if they have one child what is the probability that he or she will be affected if t 33862
Uploaded: 2023-08-24T18:06:51-08:00
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Channel: Madhur L
Description: please show math a woman and a man are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for a rare genetic disease if they have one child what is the probability that he or she will be affected if t 33862

          *Please show math!!!
A woman and a man are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for a rare genetic disease. If they have one child, what is the probability that he or she will be affected? If they have two children, what is the probability that at least one of them will be affected?

please show math a woman and a man are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for a rare genetic disease if they have one child what is the probability that he or she will be affected if t 33862

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Biology for AP Courses

Julianne Zedalis, John Eggebrecht

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Solved by Expert Madhur L

08/24/2023

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The parents are both heterozygous for a recessive allele, which means they have one dominant allele and one recessive allele. Let's represent the dominant allele as "A" and the recessive allele as "a". So, the genotype of the parents can be represented as Aa. Show more…

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*Please show math!!! A woman and a man are both heterozygous for a recessive allele for a rare genetic disease. If they have one child, what is the probability that he or she will be affected? If they have two children, what is the probability that at least one of them will be affected?