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An individual is born to one normal parent and one parent who is heterozygous for an autosomaldominant disorder. Based on your understanding of inheritance patterns, what is the likelihood thatthis individual inherited the disorder? (Hint: Draw a hypothetical Punnett square to help visualizethe problem.)

An individual is born to one normal parent and one parent who is heterozygous for-example-1

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The first option is the correct one. Since the disorder is dominant, a normal parent must be a recessive homozygote, let's say -dd-. If this parent crosses with a heterozygote parent, that is -Dd-, the chances that the newborn will inherit the disorder are 1/4. We can see that the normal parent only gives recessive alleles -d-, that will account for 50% of the probability. In the other case, the parent could provide, either a disorder allele -D- or a recessive allele -d-, so this parent adds the only chance to inherit the disorder, that is 25%.

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