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Study the pedigree chart given below showing the inheritance pattern of a human trait and answer the questions that follow:(a) Give the genotype of the parents shown in generation I and of the son and daughter shown in generation II. (b) Give the genotype of the daughters shown in generation III. (c) Is the trait sex-linked or autosomal? Justify your answer.

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(a) Genotype of the parents in generation I: 

Male (Father) — Aa 

Female (Mother) — Aa 

Son (Generation II) — Aa 

Daughter (Generation II) — aa 

(b) Genotype of the daughters in generation III—Aa 

(c) It is an autosomal trait, because if the sex-linked trait has to appear in the daughter (generation II), the father must have it; put he does not show the trait and so it is not sex-linked.



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