Answered: Woody Guthrie did have the allele.…

Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

5th Edition

ISBN:9780134477961

Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Publisher:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Chapter1: The Science Of Psychology

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Dominant disorders involve a dominant gene. Few fatal dominant disorder stay in the population because most such disorders kill people with the disorder before they are old enough to reproduce. One exception so this is Huntington disease. Huntington disease was once caught Huntington‘s Korea. Korea comes from the Greek word for dance. Other words from that same Greek root include chorale, chorus, and choreography. People with Huntington disease have in voluntary, jerky movements, which gave rise to the older name for the disorder. Woody Guthrie is the famous case of Huntington disease that brought the disease into the Publix Spotlight. His two wives were healthy, not caring an allele for the disorder. Woody Guthrie did have the allele. What is the probability at each birth that Woody Guthrie and either wife would give birth to a child with the Huntington allele? A. 25% B. 50% C. 75% D. 100%

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