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The pedigree belowtraces the inheritance of alkaptonuria, a biochemical disorder. Affected individuals, indicated here by the colored circles and squares, are unable to
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- Ectrodactyly is a rare condition in which the fingers are absent and the hand is split. This condition is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Ademar Freire-Maia reported the appearance of ectrodactyly in a family in São Paulo, Brazil, whose pedigree is shown here. Is this pedigree consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance? If not, what mode of inheritance is most likely? Explain your reasoning.arrow_forwardEctrodactyly is a rare condition in which the fingers are absent and the hand is split. This condition is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Ademar Freire-Maia reported the appearance of ectrodactyly in a family in São Paulo, Brazil, whose pedigree is shown here. Is this pedigree consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance? If not, what mode of inheritance is most likely? Explain your reasoning.arrow_forwardThe 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 recessivearrow_forward
- Nonearrow_forwardthe picture is for the question. Thank youarrow_forwardShown below is a pedigree for a completely penetrant trait called Adams syndrome in which babies are born blind. This trait occurs when an allele of the adams gene is associated with ≥200 tandem trinucleotide repeats (the normal number is 10). First cousins, III-1 and III-2 married and their first child (IV-1) was blind. For their next child, they decided to do in vitro fertilization with III-1's sperm and III-2's eggs to generate six embryos (labeled E1-6). When each embryo contained eight cells, a single cell was removed and genomic DNA was isolated. PCR reactions using primers that flank the trinucleotide repeat region were then performed and the resulting fragments were fractionated on an agarose gel. PCR reactions using genomic DNA from III-1, III-2 and IV-1 were included as controls. The DNA was visualized using a fluorescent dye and the gel is shown below. Based on this information, select the best answer from the list to the questions below. || E1 = embryo 1 IV E1 E2 E3 E4 E5…arrow_forward
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