One of your patients, a six-year-old girl who suffers from Sickle cell anemia, an inherited blood disorder in which red blood cells are abnormally shaped and fragile, leading to a short supply of red blood cells.  These abnormal cells can also get stuck

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A: It is evident that the trait is not sex-linked because:-   In the case of Y-linked disorders, only…

Q: Ellie was testing her and her parents blood types. She found that her blood type was type O. Her…

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Q: In ___________ heterogeneity, a variety of mutations in a singlegene cause disease. Compound…

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Q: a) What is the genotype for the woman, man and each of their parents? b) This couple unexpectedly is…

A: The genotype of the women is XsX because the women is normal but carrier and the men is XY because…

Q: to understand the disease and how to deal with it. The process involves studying family history,…

A: The idea that disorders are inherited has been prevailing in the human society since long. This was…

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Q: A mother is blood type A, and her baby is blood type O. One man that is suspected of being the…

A: ABO blood grouping refers to the classification of the human blood based on the inherited properties…

Q: A form of hemophilia is caused by a sex-linked (X-linked) recessive gene. A phenotypically normal…

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Q: Hereditary hemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that causes the body to absorb…

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Q: Sickle cell anemia is an inheritable red blood cell disorder that results in sickle-shaped red blood…

A: HbA encodes normal phenotype. This allele is dominant over HbS allele.

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A: Introduction Melanocytes are skin and eye cells that create and store the pigment melanin.…

Q: People with trisomy 21 develop Down’s syndrome. What law of Mendelian inheritance is violated in…

A: A gene is the fundamental physical and useful unit of heredity. Genes are comprised of DNA. A few…

Q: Achondroplasia, which is characterized by difficulty converting cartilage to bone and thus results…

A: The alleles are the alternative forms of a gene that are located on the same locus of a homologous…

Q: b) Figure 2 shows a family tree in which the blood group of certain individuals have been…

A: Alleles are the  alternative forms of a gene that occupies the same locus of homologous chromosome…

Q: cell anemia is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. For the following families, hine the…

A: Sickle Cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive disease which means that two alleles are required to…

Q: Review the process of autosomal dominant inheritance by coloring the following figures. In this…

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Q: The genetic disease hemophilia A is a sex-linked trait. Jane has an uncle on her father's side of…

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Q: Sickle anemia is a favorable mutation. There is only one amino acid different in sickle haemoglobin…

A: Sickle cell anemia is genetic disease in which blood cells contort into a sickle shape. RESULTS- 1.…

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Q: 1. Using the correct allele notation, write the genotypes for Queen Victoria and Count Chocula. 2.…

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Q: There are two traits not shown in the pedigree: albinism (autosomal recessive) and Marfan syndrome…

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Q: Mention any two autosomal genetic disorders with their symptoms.

A: Introduction The two autosomal genetic disorders with their symptoms are as follows.

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Q: A child has a blood type O. His mother has blood type O, and his father has blood type AB. Provide…

A: There are four types of blood group found in humans viz. O, A, B and AB.

Q: Help me create a pedigree of this information: Pedigree analysis:   Generation 1: Normal parents…

A: Pedigree investigation is a strategy utilized in genetics to study the inheritance design of…

Q: Paste or draw a picture of a Punnett square showing a cross between an individual with the disorder…

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A: Introduction Sickle cell anaemia is a type of sickle cell illness that is passed down the…

Q: Given that this mutated allele will cause disease and death in individuals, what would you predict…

A: Sickel cell anemia is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that affects the shape of red blood…

Q: A woman with blood type B gives birth to a child with blood type B. Could a man with type A blood be…

A: The man with blood type A could be father of the child in case he is heterozygous for the blood type…

Q: Bart and Jenny, have been arguing about the cause of their baby's aneuploid condition. Bart was 5…

A: X Linked Inheritance When the disease-causing gene or allele is present on the Sex chromosome…

Q: For the following diseases with their potential pedigree, mode of inheritance and the responsible…

A: Detailed explanation: Let's analyze Pedigree C, which is an X-linked recessive pedigree related to…

Q: Is the sickle cell allele dominant or recessive? Explain. What is sickle cell trait?

A: Sickle cell is a red blood cell trait. The red blood cells become sickle cell in shape.

Q: In another court case there are three possible fathers (and only 3).  The mother has type B blood,…

A: Given: Mother has blood type B. The child has blood type O. Father blood type =?

Q: Paste or draw a picture of a Punnett square showing a cross between an individual with the disorder…

A: Sickle cell anemia is a diseased condition in which the RBC morphology changes into a sickle shape…

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Q: A wealthy, elderly couple dies together in an accident. Soon after a man shows up to claim their…

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Q: There are six types of agglutinogen named C,D, E and c,d,e.the first three are dominant and last…

A: In blood typing, antigens on the surfaces of red blood cells (RBCs) are known as agglutinogens.…