aszymarek4359 aszymarek4359

25-10-2022
Biology

Answered

Keisha and jerome each have a sibling with sickle-cell disease. Neither keisha nor jerome nor any of their parents have the disease, and none of them have ever been tested to see if they carry the sickle-cell allele. Based on this incomplete information, calculate the probability that if this couple has a child, the child will have sickle-cell disease.

Answer :

GouravDayma GouravDayma

28-10-2022

The probability that if this couple has a child, the child will have sickle-cell disease is P=1/9.

What is sickle cell disease caused by?

The sickle cell gene is inherited and results in sickle cell disease. You cannot catch HPV from an infected person because it is not brought on by whatever the parents did either before or during the pregnancy.

Briefing:

Parents of Keisha and Jerome carried the sickle cell allele.

Keisha and Jerome had a 1/4 likelihood of contracting the illness (XX), a 1/2 likelihood of being a carrier (Xx), and a 1/4 likelihood of not contracting the illness (XX).

Since Keisha and Jerome don't have the illness, we can conclude that they are either XX or XX. Accordingly, each of them has a 2/3 chance of being a carrier (Xx).

Given that if a kid has the disease, then both parents must be carriers, the likelihood that both parents were carriers is 2/3 x 2/3, or 4/9.

One of their progeny will be XX (non-carriers) out of the 4 chances they have out of 9, two will be Xa (carriers), and one will be xx (disease).

It indicates that if these parents produce a child, the likelihood that the infant will have sickle-cell disease is 1 in 9.P=1/9

To know more about Sickle-cell disease visit:

https://brainly.com/question/3895081

#SPJ4

Answer Link

Other Questions

Cell division occurs thousands of times per day within the human body without errors. There are times, however, when a mutation occurs where sister chromatids r

you have isolated and grown a pure culture of a prokaryotic cell type. the first step in identification is a(n) group of answer choices

in population 5, the a allele is deleterious; furthermore, the a allele is incompletely dominant, so that a/a is perfectly fit, a/a has a fitness of 0.8, and a/

In the lab, a student uses a compound light microscope to look at cork cells. Which of the following describes the view the student should observe? A. Most cell

plants have been genetically engineered for all of the following reasons a. to have a higher vitamin a content. b. to make the plant more resistant to pests. c.

the first 10-14 days after conception, the one-cell structure that is created when a sperm and egg merge is called a(n) .

Please help explain if this is a correct answer

you have just eaten a candy bar and your blood glucose levels are rising. this will activate which organ of the endocrine system?

true or false: incomplete dominance produces a distinct phenotype from the heterozygous genotype. if false, make it a correct statement.

A shipping container in the shape of a rectangular solid must have a volume of 120 cubic meters. The client tells the manufacturer that, because of the contents