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What is the probability that their 1st child will be albino?

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What is the probability that their 1st child will be albino?

Postby glxvr6turbo » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:30 am

1. A husband and wife are both heterzygous for albinism, an autosomal recessive trait. What is the probability that their 1st child will be albino?

a. What is the probability that both of their 1st two children will be albino?
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Postby canalon » Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:43 am

do your frigging homeworks. Draw the punnet sqaure and calculate.
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Postby kcnq1ot1 » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:21 pm

canalon wrote:do your frigging homeworks. Draw the punnet sqaure and calculate.


:D :D

I answered one :oops:
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hi friend

Postby hezha » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:06 am

you can solve that problem very easily with Binominal test law.
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Re: hi friend

Postby Ultrashogun » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:37 pm

hezha wrote:you can solve that problem very easily with Binominal test law.


You dont even really need that because 2 over 2 = 1.
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Postby cy » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:17 am

hey patrick you always saying that !!!!
find another or think another quotation for your new answer!
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Postby MrMistery » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:18 pm

same case, same answer.
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