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Many Genetically Inherited Disorders Are Lethal,causing Death in Either Childhood

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Many genetically inherited disorders are lethal,causing death in either childhood or early adulthood.Imagine two genetically inherited diseases,both of which cause death at an average age of 25,but one disease is recessively inherited and the other disease is dominantly inherited.An examination of the entire population will likely indicate that the allele for the recessively inherited disease is much more common than the allele for the dominantly inherited disease.Why do you think this is?


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