Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To explain: Two diseases that are inherited in the autosomal dominant fashion.

Introduction: A disease can be inherited in either autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive fashion. The autosomal dominant trait shows the expression in both homozygous dominant (AA) and heterozygous (Aa) conditions. However, the autosomal recessive trait expresses itself only in the homozygous recessive (aa) condition.

b.

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To explain:  Two diseases that are inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion.

Introduction: A disease can be inherited in either autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive fashion. The autosomal recessive trait expresses itself only in the homozygous recessive (aa) condition.

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