Wearing baseball caps in class is the symptom of a serious mental disorder occurring in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele.
A. If two normal parents had a daughter with symptoms of this disorder and a normal son, what is the porbability that the son is a carrier of the recessive allele? Explain.
B. If the normal son married a normal woman whose brother was affected by this disorder and whose parents were not, what is the probability that the first offspring of this marriage would be affected? Show your calculations.
C. If the first child born to the couple in part B above were affected, what is the probability that the next child also would be affected? Explain.
D. If the first two children born to the couple in part B were affected, what is the probability that the next child would be normal? Explain.
Wearing baseball caps in class is the symptom of a serious mental disorder occurring in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele.
A. If two normal parents had a daughter with symptoms of this disorder and a normal son, what is the porbability that the son is a carrier of the recessive allele? Explain.
B. If the normal son married a normal woman whose brother was affected by this disorder and whose parents were not, what is the probability that the first offspring of this marriage would be affected? Show your calculations.
C. If the first child born to the couple in part B above were affected, what is the probability that the next child also would be affected? Explain.
D. If the first two children born to the couple in part B were affected, what is the probability that the next child would be normal? Explain.
