If one parent has sickle cell anemia and the other parent has normal blood, all of their offspring will have sickle cell trait.

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Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, which means that a person must inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene (one from each parent) to develop the disease. However, if a person inherits only one copy of the sickle cell gene, they will have sickle cell trait. Therefore, if one parent has sickle cell anemia (meaning they have two copies of the sickle cell gene) and the other parent has normal blood (meaning they have two copies of the normal hemoglobin gene), all of their offspring will inherit one copy of the sickle cell gene and one copy of the normal hemoglobin gene, resulting in sickle cell trait.

If One Parent Has Sickle Cell Anemia and the Other