You Are Analyzing a Human Pedigree for a New Disease

question 32

Multiple Choice

You are analyzing a human pedigree for a new disease and discover that the disease occurs with the same frequency in both sexes and that 25% of the children from two unaffected heterozygous parents have the disease. This disease is displaying inheritance.

• A) Autosomal recessive
• B) Autosomal dominant
• C) Sex-linked recessive
• D) Sex-linked dominant

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Definitions:

Freud's Psychoanalytic

A theory of personality development, founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes unconscious processes, childhood experiences, and sexual and aggressive drives.

Cognitive Perspective

The approach that focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Reinforcement

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