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Sickle cell disease in an inherited blood disorder. It is a recessive trait. That means you can carry one recessive allele for the disease and not have the symptoms. In this case, if you were a carrier and did not have the disease, your genotype for sickle cell would be

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If you're a carrier, you're a heterozygote...So let's say S is normal allele and s is diseased allele, then you'd be Ss.
Someone with sickle cell anemia would be ss (homozygous recessive)
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The answer would be heterozygous.

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