Problem 2: The accompanying pedigree is for a rare, but relatively mild, hereditary disorder of the skin. 1 11 ||| IV 1 OT 1 2 2 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 a. Is the disorder inherited as a recessive or a dominant phenotype? State reasons for your answer. b. Give genotypes for as many individuals in the pedigree as possible. (Invent your own defined allele symbols.) Consider the four unaffected children of parents III-4 and III-5. In all four-child progenies from parents of these genotypes, what proportion is expected to contain all unaffected children?

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Problem 2: The accompanying pedigree is for a rare, but relatively mild, hereditary disorder of
the skin.
11
III
IV
OT
1
2
4
4 5 6 7
5 6 7 8
a. Is the disorder inherited as a recessive or a dominant phenotype? State reasons for your
answer.
b. Give genotypes for as many individuals in the pedigree as possible. (Invent your own defined
allele symbols.) Consider the four unaffected children of parents III-4 and III-5. In all four-child
progenies from parents of these genotypes, what proportion is expected to contain all unaffected
children?
Transcribed Image Text:Problem 2: The accompanying pedigree is for a rare, but relatively mild, hereditary disorder of the skin. 11 III IV OT 1 2 4 4 5 6 7 5 6 7 8 a. Is the disorder inherited as a recessive or a dominant phenotype? State reasons for your answer. b. Give genotypes for as many individuals in the pedigree as possible. (Invent your own defined allele symbols.) Consider the four unaffected children of parents III-4 and III-5. In all four-child progenies from parents of these genotypes, what proportion is expected to contain all unaffected children?
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