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Use the space below to tell the probability of Tom and Tina having a child with sickle-cell and explain how you determine that.

User Yuri Tsoglin
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(A: infected, a: non-infected)

Both parents could be Aa Aa
Which would result in AA Aa Aa aa ( %25)

One could be AA other could be aa
Aa Aa Aa Aa (%100)

Both can be infected
AA AA AA AA (%100)
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