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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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Answer» (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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