Please Read the Following Scenario to Answer the Following Question

question 55

Multiple Choice

Please read the following scenario to answer the following question.
The parents of a child with unusual disease symptoms take the child to a doctor for help. The doctor suspects that the condition might have a genetic basis. She recommends that the child be taken to a specialty clinic where physicians and staff members are trained to diagnose genetic diseases and counsel parents. Ultimately, the child is diagnosed with a rare recessively inherited disease. The parents are tested for the gene, and both are found to be heterozygous. The parents want to have another child but are afraid this child will also be affected.
-What would genetic counselors say is the probability that the second child will have the disease?

• A)1/2
• B)1/4
• C)1/8
• D)1/16

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