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A child is diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. Neither parent has the disease. How might the child have inherited the disorder?

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Answer:

Recessive genes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Both parents were likely carriers of the rare disease, but dominant traits allowed them not to be affected by it.

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