Biology: Life on Earth
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780321729712
Author: Gerald Audesirk, Teresa Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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Chapter 12, Problem 3AC
Androgen insensitivity is inherited as a simple recessive trait, because one copy of the normal androgen receptor allele produces sufficient amounts of androgen receptors. Given this information and your knowledge of the chromosomal basis of inheritance, can androgen insensitivity be inherited, or must it arise as a new mutation each time it occurs? If it can be inherited, would inheritance be through the mother or through the father? Why?
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