Campbell Biology In Focus
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780134203072
Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 9TYU
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The probability of the offspring of Karen and Steveto have sickle cell anemia, if both of them have siblings who had sickle cell anemia.
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Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which the red blood corpuscles are sickle shaped or crescent shapedrather than round with a grove in the middle. This is caused due to a mutation in one of the base pairs and it is a hereditary disease. It causes the loss in binding of oxygen molecule to red blood cells.
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