A person who develops the disease sickle-cell anemia:
A)is homozygous for HbA
B)is homozygous for HbS
C)is heterozygous

Name: A person who develops the disease sickle-cell anemia: A)is homozygous for HbA B)is homozygous for HbS C)is heterozygous
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A person who develops sickle-cell anemia is homozygous for HbS, meaning they inherited two copies of the HbS allele from their parents, rather than one HbS and one HbA allele (which would make them heterozygous).

A Person Who Develops the Disease Sickle-Cell Anemia