If You Have One Deleterious Recessive Allele That Causes Early

question 55

Multiple Choice

If you have one deleterious recessive allele that causes early death in its homozygous state, what is the probability that an offspring by you and your full sibling would acquire the lethal disease?

• A) 1:1
• B) 1:2
• C) 1:4
• D) 1:8

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