Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology (5th Edition)
Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology (5th Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780321967671
Author: Eric J. Simon, Jean L. Dickey, Jane B. Reece, Kelly A. Hogan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 9, Problem 15SQ
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To explain: The reason for the occurrence of hemophilia, a sex-linked recessive disorder in boy and to draw the pedigree that shows the genotypes of the three individuals. The fraction of the couple’s children that are likely to suffer from hemophilia and the fraction of the carriers formed due to this cross.

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Hemophilia is a genetic disease of the blood, which is caused due to a genetic mutation of the factor VIII involved in blood clotting. In this disease the clotting of the blood decreases. It is a sex-linked recessive disorder.

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