Consider the following family history: Bob has a genetic condition that affects his skin. Bob’s wife, Eleanor, has normal skin.
No one in Eleanor’s family has ever had the skin condition. Bob and Eleanor have a large family. Of their eleven children, all six of their sons have normal skin, but all five of their daughters have the same skin condition as Bob. Based on Bob and Eleanor’s family history, what inheritance pattern does the skin condition most likely follow? View Available Hint(s) Consider the following family history: Bob has a genetic condition that affects his skin. Bob’s wife, Eleanor, has normal skin. No one in Eleanor’s family has ever had the skin condition. Bob and Eleanor have a large family. Of their eleven children, all six of their sons have normal skin, but all five of their daughters have the same skin condition as Bob. Based on Bob and Eleanor’s family history, what inheritance pattern does the skin condition most likely follow? autosomal dominant X-linked dominant Y-linked autosomal recessive X-linked recessive
All of the Bob and Elenaor's sons are with normal skin, they inherited Y chromosome from the father and X from the mother.
On the other hand, all daughters have the same skin condition as Bob, they inherited one X chromosome from father and another from mother. X chromosome inherited from the father is enough for condition to appear, so it means that it is dominant and X linked.
