medium · MCAT bio-biochem
A pedigree analysis of a family with a rare metabolic disorder shows that the trait skips generations. Two unaffected parents have an affected daughter.
If these parents have another child, what is the probability that the child will be a phenotypic carrier of the recessive allele?
- 25%
- 100%
- 66%
- 50%
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