Determine whether the statements below are true or false. If a...

Question

Determine whether the statements below are true or false. If a statement is false, provide the correct information or revise the statement to make it correct.

If a woman is heterozygous for albinism, an autosomal recessive condition that results in the absence of skin pigment, the proportion of her gametes carrying the allele that allows pigment expression is expected to be 75%.

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone. Here we have a question saying a white straight eared capital, W lower case W capital E, lowercase E, female rabbit was crossed with a brown droopy eared, lower case W lower case W lower case E, lower case E, male rabbit. And the question is, what is the probability of producing a brown rabbit? So we are going to draw opponents square on the screen. Our first gina type is going to be capital, W capital E. Our second genotype will be capital, W lower case E, our third genotype will be lower case W capital E and our fourth genotype will be lower case W lower case E and that is the genotype of our female rabbit. Next, we are going to put the genotype of the mill. So that is lower case W lower case E, lower case W, lower case E, lower case W, lower case E, lower case W lower case E and now we can draw the offspring. So for the first one, we have capital, W lower case W capital E lowercase E. For our second offspring we have capital, W lower case W lower case E, lower case E for our third offspring, we have lower case W lower case W capital, E lowercase E for our fourth offspring, we have lower case W lower case W lower case E, lower case E for our fifth offspring, we have capital, W lower case W capital, E lowercase E for our sixth offspring, we have capital, W lower case W lower case E, lower case E for our next offspring, we have lower case W lower case W capital, E lowercase E for our next offspring, we have lower case W lower case W lower case E, lower case E for our next offspring, we have capital, W capital, E, I'm sorry, capital, W lower case W capital, E lowercase E for our next offspring, we have capital, W lower case W lower case E, lower case E for our next offspring, we have lower case W lower case W capital, E lowercase E fair. Next offspring, we have lower case W lower case W lower case E, lower case C for our next offspring, we have capital, W lower case W capital, E lowercase E for our next offspring, we have capital, W lower case W lower case E lower case E for next offspring, we have lower case W lower case W capital, E lowercase E. And for our final offspring, we have lower case W lower case W lower case E, lower case E. So we're looking for brown rabbit, lower case W lower case W so we have all of these which are half of our pennant square, the right half of our pundits where Are brown. So that is 50%. So our answer is a 50%. Thank you for watching. Bye.

Key Concepts

Heterozygosity

Autosomal Recessive Inheritance

Gamete Formation and Allele Distribution

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