Thalassemia is an inherited anemic disorder in humans. Affected i...

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Thalassemia is an inherited anemic disorder in humans. Affected individuals exhibit either a minor anemia or a major anemia. Assuming that only a single gene pair and two alleles are involved in the inheritance of these conditions, is thalassemia a dominant or recessive disorder?

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Hi everyone. Welcome back. Let's look at our next question. It says which of the following diseases does not have? And autism or recessive inheritance pattern? Well, let's look through our answer choices here. Um recalling that autism or recessive. You might see the traits skipping generations. Whereas autism will dominant inheritance. Um Every affected individual will have at least one affected parent. Can't skip generations because you won't be a carrier for the disease. You'll always express. The gene express will be affected by the disease. If you have at least one copy of the gene. Choice A is thalassemia, thalassemia is autism a recessive. So not our answer choice Choice B. Is sickle cell anemia, that's another autism, A recessive condition. So not our answer choice C. Is albinism also autism a recessive. So we're down to choice D Huntington's disease and Huntington's Huntington's disease is autism. All dominant. Um, Every time an individual inherits at least one gene for it, um they are affected by the disease. So Choice, the Huntington's disease is the one that does not have an autism. A recessive inheritance pattern. See you in the next video

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Thalassemia is an inherited anemic disorder in humans. Affected individuals exhibit either a minor anemia or a major anemia. Assuming that only a single gene pair and two alleles are involved in the inheritance of these conditions, is thalassemia a dominant or recessive disorder?