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ISBN: 9780321962751

Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece

Publisher: PEARSON

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Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain b…

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Chapter 12, Problem 5TYU

A man with red-green color blindness (a recessive, sex-linked condition) marries a woman with normal vision whose father was color-blind. What is the probability that they will have a color-blind daughter? That their first son will be color-blind? (Note the different wording in the two questions.)

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Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)

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