Over a period of several years, a large hospital kepttrack of the number of births of babies displaying thetrait achondroplasia. Achondroplasia is a very rareautosomal dominant condition resulting in dwarfismwith abnormal body proportions. After 120,000births, it was noted that 27 babies had been born withachondroplasia. One physician was interested in determining how many of these dwarf babies resultedfrom new mutations and whether the apparent mutation rate in this geographical area was higher thannormal. He looked up the families of the 27 dwarfbirths and discovered that four of the dwarf babieshad a dwarf parent. What is the apparent mutationrate of the achondroplasia gene in this population? Isit unusually high or low?

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A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.