Answered: Two normal parents have a child with…

Two normal parents have a child with cystic fibrosis. Would this be an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive disorder? What is the chance that their next child will have cystic fibrosis?

BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)

10th Edition

ISBN:9781305967359

Author:STARR

Publisher:STARR

Chapter14: Human Inheritance

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 4GP: An allele responsible for Marfan syndrome Section 13.4 is inherited in an autosomal dominant...

See similar textbooks

Related questions

Q: A woman develops Huntington's disease and already has 3 children. What is the chance that the mother…

A: Huntington’s disease or Huntington's chorea is a muscular and mental disorder. There is a gradual…

Q: How could a child inherit a disease that neither parent has?

A: In Mendel experiment F1 heterozygote Tt to be exactly like the parent in appearance. Because one…

Q: According to Figure 1, what is the probability that that next child of the couple marked with an…

A: Osteoporosis is a disease of bone caused by a shortage of calcium and other minerals in bones which…

Q: Omar and Aleema are expecting a baby and discover they are both carriers for the autosomal recessive…

A: Sickle cell anemia is a inherited Group of disorder where shape of red blood cells turns in sickle…

Q: Draw a family tree or pedigree showing the difference in inheritance between an autosomal dominant…

A: A pedigree is a chart that depicts the biological relationship of an individual with its ancestors.…

Q: The pedigree shown is A) Autosomal Dominant B) Autosomal Recessive C) Sex linked D) Sex linked…

A: In the given pedigree, the trait skips generation i.e., two unaffected parents have affected…

Q: A son with cystic fibrosis is born to a couple that appears normal. What are the chances that any…

A: Cystic fibrosis is a recessive disease, which means that both copies of the allele in homozygous…

Q: Neither Tim nor Rhoda has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but their firstborn son does. What is the…

A: Dominant and recessive traits exist when a trait has two different forms at the gene level. The…

Q: Is this pedigree recessive or dominant? Is it autosomal or sex-linked?

A: Pedigree is defined as the diagrammatic representation of individuals of a family for a particular…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 16 can survive?

A: due to nondisjunction of chromosomes in maternal meiosis I stage, there are high chances of more…

Q: In a disputed parentage case, the child is blood type O, while the mother is blood type A. What…

A: There are 4 primary blood groups (kinds of blood) – A, B, AB and O. Your blood group is controlled…

Q: A form of hemophilia is caused by a sex-linked (X-linked) recessive gene. A phenotypically normal…

A: 50 percent chances.

Q: Therefore, what is the probability of this couple having a child who is colour blind ?

A: Color blindness is a condition wherein a person is unable to distinguish between two colors,…

Q: Huntington’s disease is a dominant disorder. Suppose that Kent and Alice are both heterozygous for…

A: Huntington's disease [HD] is a brain disorder. This disease is caused by the defective gene present…

Q: What is the mode of inheritance shown here? Sex-linked recessive Autosomal recessive…

A: Genes provide the guidelines for the body's development and growth. The majority of genes are…

Q: Mark has an autosomal recessive condition called sickle cell anemia, a serious blood disorder that…

A: Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disorder which ne it can only expression if present in…

Q: If a man has an X-linked recessive disease, can his sons inherit that disease from him? Why or why…

A: The X-linked recessive disease is caused by a mutation in X chromosomes. X and Y are two sex…

Q: A recently married couple are both heterozygous for cystic fibrosis, a recessive genetic disorder.…

A: Both the part a) and part b) are the same questions. So I am answering only part a). An autosomal…

Q: Why is autosomal Monosomy lethal?

A: Most living species have DNA as their genetic material. It is the cell's information centre,…

Q: If a girl has blood type O, what could be the genotypes and corresponding phenotypes of her parents?

A: The blood group of people is determined from the genes, which are inherited from their parents. A,…

Q: In a family, the mother has type A blood, the daughter has type O blood, and the son has type B…

A: ABO blood group shows a codominance pattern. It means that neither of the alleles A or B is…

Q: Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant disease in humans, but the first symptoms usually…

A: Autosomal dominant disorder inheritance The dominant autosomal mutated gene cause the defect in…

Q: Is this pedigree autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, or X-linked recressive? Can you please…

A: Autosomal dominant and Autosomal recessive: The word autosomal refers to the "autosomes" which means…

Q: Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a sex-linked recessive disorder characterized by a progressive loss…

A: Duchene muscular dystrophy is a X linked recessive trait. It is characterized by progressive loss of…

Q: man has a child with a woman who does not carry the dominant disease allele, what is the probability…

Q: If two parents have a recessive trait, can they have a child that has a dominant trait?

A: Introduction Even if only one copy of the dominant trait exists, dominant traits are always…

Q: Jan and Michael are both carriers for the cystic fibrosis allele. If Jan and Michael have five…

A: Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder, which means it is transferred from…

Q: Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disorder that affects 1 in 3 000 newborns with Caucasian…

A: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive…

Q: A female who is a carrier for an autosomal recessive disorder has the genotype

A: (Please note that, you have submitted two question, we can only answer to one question at a time,…

Q: How many total chromosomes were on your karyotype sheets? How many of the chromosomes are…

A: DNA contains inheritable segments that are called genes that contain instructions for protein…

Q: If a male is homozygous dominant and a female is heterozygous, what is the probability that their…

A: Homozygous means that both the allele will be similar. Heterozygous means that both allele will be…

Q: What are the odds of the person with sickle cell anemia disorder passing it on to their children if…

A: Sir Gregor Mendel was a priest and a teacher who did the famous hybridization experiment on garden…

Q: Albinism is an autosomal (not sex-linked) recessive trait. A man and woman are both of normal…

A: Albinism is a genetic disorder in which affected individuals are born without the melanin pigment.…

Q: Rr female Rr male

A: It is given that R allele encodes normal phenotype. It is dominant over r allele. RR and Rr encode…

Q: How long can a person live with Trisomy 16?

A: Trisomy 16 is a genetic alteration in which there is an extra copy of a chromosome 16 in a person.…

Q: Choose a pattern of inheritance (autosomal recessive, X-linked dominant, etc.) and identify a…

A: A genetic disorder is a condition characterized by alterations in the DNA which are passed to the…

Q: Discuss and differentiate: Trisomy 13 Trisomy 18 Trisomy 21 Turner syndrome Klinefelter syndrome

A: Answers All these diseases are genetic disorders. Trisomy 13(2n+1) Also known as Patau syndrome,…

Q: Is the inheritance autosomal or sex-linked?

A: The genes are located on the specific region of the DNA. Genes determine the phenotypic…

Q: Charles was married once before and he and his first wife had a child with cystic fibrosis. The…

A: Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disease. It is a genetically inherited disease.

Q: Jan and Michael are both carriers for the cystic fibrosis allele. If Jan and Michael have three…

A: Fraternal or dizygotic twins are produced when two different ova are fertilised by 2 different…

Q: If a woman is heterozygous for neurofibromatosis (a dominant disorder) and produces with a…

A: Neurofibromatosis (NF1) is hereditary disease (which can be passed on from one generation to…

Q: If an individual is heterozygous for a gene with two alleles, one dominant and one recessive, what…

A: The alleles are the different forms of a character that are present in a population. In a diploid…

Q: Two parents with blood types A and O have a child who has type O blood. What is the probability that…

A: The above question is about the blood grouping system. Blood grouping is based on multiple allelism…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 13 can survive?

A: Trisomy 13 or Patau syndrome occurs when 3 copies of the chromosome-13 are present in each cell of…

Q: What is the chance that a child of III-1 and III-4 will have the disease?

A: Pedigree is a family tree drawn with standard genetic symbol representing the ancestry of an…

Q: What is recessive epistasis?

A: In epistasis, the collaboration between qualities is hostile, to such an extent that one quality…

Q: by what age a person with trisomy 18 can survive?

A: Trisomy is a rare genetic condition with three extra copies of chromosomes instead of two copies…

Q: What must be true about the genotypes of parents who have a child who has a recessive trait?

A: Given: the child has a recessive trait, so let the genotype of the child be - aa for dominant trait…

Question

Please answer the attached question:

Two normal parents have a child with cystic fibrosis. Would this be an
autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive disorder? What is the chance
that their next child will have cystic fibrosis?

Expert Solution

This question has been solved!

Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.

This is a popular solution!

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Step 1 Introduction

VIEW

Step 2 Explanation

VIEW

Trending now

This is a popular solution!

Step by step

Solved in 2 steps

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Knowledge Booster

Learn more about

Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, biology and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.

Similar questions

If diseases such as cardiovascular disease (hypertension and atherosclerosis) are familial, is this an indication that there is a genetic contribution to these traits? What would you do to confirm that genetics is involved in this condition?
If a couple has six boys, what is the probability that a seventh child will be a girl?
Why do unrelated children with a disorder such as Down syndrome resemble each other more closely than they do their siblings?
An allele responsible for Marfan syndrome Section 13.4 is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. What is the chance that a child will inherit the allele if one parent does not carry it and the other is heterozygous?
What is a carrier of a genetic trait?
Can a male be a carrier of red-green color blindness?
Two normal parents have a child with cyatic fibrosis. Would this be an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive disorder? What is the chance that their next child will have cystic fibrosis?
A man and woman are both heterozygous for the recessive allele that causes cystic fibrosis. What is the probability that their first two offspring will have the disorder?
A son with cystic fibrosis is born to a couple that appears normal. What are the chances that any child born to this couple will have cystic fibrosis? If this couple had three normal children, what are the chances that the fourth child will have cystic fibrosis?
What are the chances of two parents who carry the gene for albinism (an autosomal recessive disorder) having a child without albinism?
If a woman is heterozygous for neurofibromatosis (a dominant disorder) and produces with a homozygous normal man for the disorder, what are the chances that a child will have the disorder?
If both parents have an autosomal dominant trait, what can you say about their children? Explain