The following pedigree shows the inheritance of a human disorder. Affected individuals areshown with filled symbols.IIIII2 35Based on the pedigree, propose the least likely inheritance pattern of the disease amongautosomal dominance, autosomal recessive, X-linked dominance and X-linked recessive.Your choice of answer can be impossible and possible. Explain your answer by giving theevidence that supports or opposes each mode of inheritance. You can reconstruct the tableshown below and draw the pedigree in your answer script. Write the possible genotype ofeach individual in the pedigree for each inheritance pattern proposed.Mode ofPossibilityExplanationsPedigreeinheritanceAutosomaldominanceAutosomalrecessiveX-linkeddominanceX-linkedrecessive

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The following pedigree shows the inheritance of a human disorder. Affected individuals are
shown with filled symbols.
II
III
2 3
5
Based on the pedigree, propose the least likely inheritance pattern of the disease among
autosomal dominance, autosomal recessive, X-linked dominance and X-linked recessive.
Your choice of answer can be impossible and possible. Explain your answer by giving the
evidence that supports or opposes each mode of inheritance. You can reconstruct the table
shown below and draw the pedigree in your answer script. Write the possible genotype of
each individual in the pedigree for each inheritance pattern proposed.
Mode of
Possibility
Explanations
Pedigree
inheritance
Autosomal
dominance
Autosomal
recessive
X-linked
dominance
X-linked
recessive

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