Final answer:
Option (a), A person does experience an autosomal recessive disease when they inherit one copy of the gene from each carrier parent, which is true.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that a person experiences an autosomal recessive disease when he/she inherits the gene from each parent is true. In autosomal recessive inheritance, an individual must receive two copies of a disease-causing allele, one from each parent, to manifest the disorder. Parents who each carry one copy of the disease-causing allele are referred to as carriers.
While they do not show symptoms themselves, there is a 25% chance that their child will inherit both copies of the recessive allele and thus express the disease phenotype. This pattern of inheritance is the same for both male and female offspring, contrasting with autosomal dominant disorders where only one copy of the disease-causing allele is necessary to exhibit symptoms.