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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
book Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher cover

Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
Exercise 17
When a father has Huntington's disease with a heterozygous genotype, the nurse uses the Punnett square to illustrate the inheritance patterns and the probability of transmission of the autosomal dominant disease.The mother does not carry the Huntington's disease gene.Complete the Punnett square below to illustrate this inheritance pattern, using "H" as the normal gene and "h" as the gene for Huntington's disease. When a father has Huntington's disease with a heterozygous genotype, the nurse uses the Punnett square to illustrate the inheritance patterns and the probability of transmission of the autosomal dominant disease.The mother does not carry the Huntington's disease gene.Complete the Punnett square below to illustrate this inheritance pattern, using H as the normal gene and h as the gene for Huntington's disease.    There is a _______ % chance that offspring will be unaffected. There is a _______ % chance that offspring will be affected.
There is a
_______ % chance that offspring will be unaffected.
There is a
_______ % chance that offspring will be affected.
Explanation
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