Turner syndrome is a disease in which an individual is born with only a single X chromosome. Suppose the woman in the couple is a carrier for hemophilia and has a child with Turner syndrome. Would this child have the disease?

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 Shown above is a family pedigree tree in which family members afflicted
with the disease Haemophilia are shown with filled-in squares (male) or circles (females). A couple is trying to determine the likelihood of passing
on the disease to their future children (represented by the ? symbol
above) because the hemophilia runs in the woman’s family.

Turner syndrome is a disease in which an individual is born
with only a single X chromosome. Suppose the woman in the
couple is a carrier for hemophilia and has a child with Turner
syndrome. Would this child have the disease?

Questions 4-6 refer to the following pedigree tree and paragraph.
Male
Female
어미
Transcribed Image Text:Questions 4-6 refer to the following pedigree tree and paragraph. Male Female 어미
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