ND STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY LOOSELEAF GENETICS: FROM GENES TO GENOMES
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ISBN: 9781260406092
Author: HARTWELL, Leland, HOOD, Leroy, Goldberg, Michael
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education/stony Brook University
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Chapter 4, Problem 38P
The pedigree that follows indicates the occurrence of albinism in a group of Hopi Indians, among whom the trait is unusually frequent. Assume that the trait is fully penetrant (all individuals with a genotype that could give rise to albinism will display this condition).
a. | Is albinism in this population caused by a recessive or a dominant allele? |
b. | Is the gene sex-linked or autosomal? What are the genotypes of the following individuals? |
c. | individual I-1 |
d. | individual I-8 |
e. | individual I-9 |
f. | individual II-6 |
g. | individual II-8 |
h. | individual III-4 |
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ND STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY LOOSELEAF GENETICS: FROM GENES TO GENOMES
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