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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
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A normal woman is married with a man having hypertrichosis condition. They got one daughter and one son. What is the possibility of this daughter to have hypertrichosis condition?

  • 0%

  • 25%

  • 50%

  • 100%

Solution

A.

0%

The inheritance of hypertrichosis is controlled by holandric genes present on the non-homologous part of Y-chromosome. These genes are usually received and usually expressed by all the male descendants of affected male generation after generation while female descendants, being lacking this non-homologous Y-region could neither receive, express, nor transmit such a trait.