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question 48

Multiple Choice

Refer to the following information to answer the questions below.
A man who is an achondroplastic dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was 6 feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.
-They have a daughter who is a dwarf with normal color vision. What is the probability that she is heterozygous for both genes?

• A) 0%
• B) 25%
• C) 50%
• D) 75%
• E) 100%

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Definitions:

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Mutually Exclusive

Refers to events that cannot occur at the same time.

P(C)

The probability of occurrence of event C.

Classical Method

A traditional approach in statistical inference focusing on hypothesis testing and estimation based on fixed sample sizes.