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a.
To determine:
The probability that the first child will have achoo syndrome but lack the trembling chin.
Introduction:
According to the law of dominance; a dominant trait expresses itself in both homozygous conditions as well as heterozygous condition. On the contrary, the recessive trait is able to express only in homozygous condition.
b.
To determine:
The probability that the first child will have neither achoo syndrome nor trembling chin.
Introduction:
Gene is a basic unit of inheritance. The genes carry the information from the parent cells to the offspring, and this information includes different characteristics of an individual are. In sexual reproduction, each parent provides a haploid set of genes, thus producing a diploid offspring.
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