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A person who is heterozygous for the huntington disease (hd) allele has offspring with someone who does not have hd. what proportion of their children will have hd?

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A person who is heterozygous for the Huntington disease (HD) allele has offspring with someone who does not have HD. What proportion of their children will have HD? ... Half the children have the disorder, both sons and daughters.

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A person who is heterozygous for the huntington disease (hd) allele has offspring with someone who does not have hd. The proportion will be 1/2.
Hetrozygous is a genetic term and it refers to an organism which has two different alleles for a trait.
Huntington disease is a fatal genetic disorder or inherited disease, which causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain.
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