If a man has 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot and his wife and daughter have the normal number of digits , what fraction of this couple's children are expected to have extra digits (extra digits is a dominant trait)?      1/2     1/4     0     1/8

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If a man has 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot and his wife and daughter have the normal number of digits , what fraction of this couple's children are expected to have extra digits (extra digits is a dominant trait)? 

   

1/2

   

1/4

   

0

   

1/8

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