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A husband and wife both have normal skin pigmentation. His fatherwas an albino and her mother was an albino. Albinism is due to anautosomal recessive gene.
(i) What is the chance of them having an albino child?
(ii) What is the chance of them having 3 children, which are allalbino?

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