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Ch. 14 - Mendel and the Gene Idea
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Chapter 14, Problem 13

The pedigree below traces the inheritance of alkaptonuria, a biochemical disorder. Affected individuals, indicated here by the colored circles and squares, are unable to metabolize a substance called alkapton, which colors the urine and stains body tissues. Does alkaptonuria appear to be caused by a dominant allele or by a recessive allele? Fill in the genotypes of the individuals whose genotypes can be deduced. What genotypes are possible for each of the other individuals?

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Hello everyone here we have a question telling us all. Captain Urea is a biochemical disorder affected individuals cannot metabolize a substance called Al Qattan which occur which colors the urine and stains body tissues. Jack is married to Natasha. Jack is a normal person but Natasha is suffering from Al Qattan urea. Both have 50% of Children suffering from Al Captain Urea disease. Based upon these observations, we conclude that alcohol area appeared to be caused by a excellent dominant. A little bi zonal recessive, a little C. X linked recessive a little. The autism will dominant a little for Jack to be normal but still have Children. He at least needs to be hetero Ziegenfuss. So we're going to call him capital a lower case A. For Natasha to have it, she would have to lower case A's. And if we do our punnett square, we have capital A lowercase A. So a normal individual capital A lowercase A. Another normal individual to lower case A. And two lowercase A's. Which indeed gives us 50% of Children suffering from a Captain Urea. So this is this is in line with the conclusion that Alcatel Urea is an autism. A recessive trait. So our answer here is B Arizona recessive A little. Thank you for watching. Bye.
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