know that cystic fibrosis runs in your mothers family. Your fathers family is not known to have it. Is it worse to have a parent with Costco fibrosis or a sibling with cystic fibrosis? Draw a small pedigree for both options make the appropriate assumptions and calculate the chances for each, then state your conclusio
You know that cystic fibrosis runs in your mothers family. Your fathers family is not known to have it. Is it worse to have a parent with Costco fibrosis or a sibling with cystic fibrosis? Draw a small pedigree for both options make the appropriate assumptions and calculate the chances for each, then state your conclusion.
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder. In this disorder there is breathing difficulties, excess mucus secretion and damage to the lungs, pancreas , intestines. Thus these patients frequently get infected with lung infections. The pattern of inheritance is autosomal recessive. So, both sexes may have the disorder in equal proportion.
Sex linked genetic disorders either affect males or females. Individuals with autosomal recessive disorders have two copies of the mutant allele because it is expressed only in homozygous recessive state.
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