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question 42

Multiple Choice

Please use the following information to answer the question(s) 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.
-One of two major forms of a human condition called neurofibromatosis (NF 1) is inherited as a dominant allele, although it may range from mildly to very severely expressed. If a young child is the first in her family to be diagnosed, which of the following is the best explanation?

• A) The mother carries the allele but does not express it at all.
• B) One of the parents has very mild expression of the gene.
• C) The condition skipped a generation in the family.
• D) The child has a different allele of the gene than the parents.

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Frontal Lobe

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