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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
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If a boy's father has haemophilia and his mother has one gene for haemophilia, what is the chance that the boy will inherit the disease?

  • 100%

  • 50%

  • 0%

  • 75%

Solution

B.

50%

Haemophilia is a X-linked recessive disorder. The presence of single X-chromosome (with haemophilia gene) show the disease in male. Therefore, in the above example, boy chances of inheriting the disease is 50%.