The parents in the following figure are carriers of a genetic disorder.Based on the Punnett square,the allele that causes the disorder must

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Since both parents are carriers, it is likely that the disorder is caused by an autosomal recessive allele. If it were sex-linked, the probability of their offspring inheriting the disorder would be different depending on their gender. If it were incompletely dominant, the phenotype of the heterozygous offspring would be somewhere between that of the homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive offspring. If it were the result of a linkage of A and a, we would expect to see different inheritance patterns based on the location of the A and a alleles on the same chromosome.

The Parents in the Following Figure Are Carriers of a Genetic