Chapter 12, Problem 17TYK

Summary Introduction

To review:

The arguments that can be made by a lawyer to deny a person’s paternity based on a test of blood type, and whether the test could prove that the person is the father of the child.

Introduction:

A homozygous allelic pair is one that has the same genes with both coding either for dominant genes or for recessive genes. A heterozygous allelic pair is one that contains two genes, which code for dominant genes and recessive genes. In the case of multiple allelism or co-dominance, more than one allele can code for the same trait and can be dominant for the trait. The best example is ABO blood grouping.