Adult hemoglobin is a multimeric protein with fourpolypeptides, two of which are α-globin and two ofwhich are β-globin.a. How many genes are needed to define the structureof the hemoglobin protein?b. If a person is heterozygous for wild-type allelesand alleles that would yield amino acid substitutionvariants for both α-globin and β-globin, how manydifferent kinds of hemoglobin protein would befound in the person’s red blood cells and in whatproportion? Assume all alleles are expressed at thesame level.

Adult hemoglobin is a multimeric protein with fourpolypeptides, two of which are α-globin and two ofwhich are β-globin.a. How many genes are needed to define the structureof the hemoglobin protein?b. If a person is heterozygous for wild-type allelesand alleles that would yield amino acid substitutionvariants for both α-globin and β-globin, how manydifferent kinds of hemoglobin protein would befound in the person’s red blood cells and in whatproportion? Assume all alleles are expressed at thesame level.

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