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book Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl cover

Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1449686482
book Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl cover

Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1449686482
Exercise 4
A woman is heterozygous for two harmful recessive alleles in different chromosomes, one for phenylketonuria (PKU) and the other for cystic fibrosis (CF). If she has a daughter, what is the probability that the child will carry neither of the recessive alleles? Exactly one? Both? If she has a granddaughter, what is the probability that the child will carry both recessives?
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Since both mutations lie on different ch...

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