Final answer:
To convert the verbal pedigrees into diagrams, we identify the inheritance pattern of albinism, a recessive trait, and represent each family member with standardized symbols, shading those expressing the trait. The pedigree would illustrate that the albino woman's parents are carriers and her children, despite her genotype, are phenotypically normal.
Step-by-step explanation:
The subject in question involves pedigree analysis, a tool used in genetics to trace the inheritance of specific traits, such as albinism, across generations. To create a pedigree diagram, we represent females with circles and males with squares. Individuals with the trait in question are usually shaded or marked to indicate their genotype. Given the scenario, an albino woman (representing a recessive trait) with normal parents suggests that her parents must be carriers (heterozygous) for the trait.
As albinism is recessive, all of her children are normal, which likely means that the husband does not carry the allele for albinism, or they all happened to inherit the normal allele. This would be consistent with the children's phenotypes. We could use a Punnett square or a monohybrid cross to illustrate the genetic probabilities of this inheritance pattern.
In this specific case, the woman's pedigree symbol would be a shaded circle connected to her parents (a non-shaded circle and square) with a horizontal line. Her brothers would be represented as four non-shaded squares connected to the parental line. Her own offspring would be depicted as eight non-shaded squares and five non-shaded circles, indicating that all children are without the albinism trait.
The normal phenotype of the children could be explained by the husband being homozygous dominant (AA) or heterozygous (Aa) for the normal skin pigment gene, but since albinism is not manifested in the children, it suggests the genetic combination between the parents did not result in the recessive phenotype.