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If your father is bald, your parental grandfather has normal growth of hair and yoour mother had no history of baldness in her family,what is the chances that your bother would become bald?

Anatomy & Physiology

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Author:Kelly A. Young, James A. Wise, Peter DeSaix, Dean H. Kruse, Brandon Poe, Eddie Johnson, Jody E. Johnson, Oksana Korol, J. Gordon Betts, Mark Womble

Publisher:Kelly A. Young, James A. Wise, Peter DeSaix, Dean H. Kruse, Brandon Poe, Eddie Johnson, Jody E. Johnson, Oksana Korol, J. Gordon Betts, Mark Womble

Chapter5: The Integumentary System

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This ABC video follows the story of a pair of fraternal African-American twins, one of whom is albino.Watch this video (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/albino) to learn about the challenges these children and their family face. Which ethnicities do you think are exempt from the possibility of albinism?