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Explanation: 1) Individual who is bald but neither parents has a widow's peak: As having a peak is dominant and the individual is bald with parents that doesn't have the trait, the genotype is recessive, in the case ww;
2) Individual has a widow's peak: The individual's genotype can be WW, homozygous for the trait or Ww, heterozygous for the trait, depending on the genotype of the parents;
3) Individual can't roll their tongue: Being able to roll the tongue is a dominant characteristics, so if the individual can't roll their tongue means the genotype is recessive. But, there is little evidence that this trait is dominant or inheritable;
4) Individual has a widow's peak but their mother does not: In this case, the genotype of the individual is heterozygous (Ww), because the mother is recessive (ww) and the offspring has the trait, so the father must have had it;
5) If an individual does not have a widow's peak (ww), which genotype would be impossible? If this individual crosses over with another individual with the same trait, their children will be all recessive for widow's peak (ww), so there is no possibility of an offspring with the trait;
If the initial individual crosses over with an individual with widow's peak, two possiblities can occur:
- If the crossover is with an individual homozygous for the trait (WW): all their children will have widow's peak with genotype Ww. So, the possibility of not having the peak is 0;
- If the crossover is with an individual heterozygous for the trait (Ww), there will be a probability of 25% for the children to have genotype WW, a probability of 50% for the offspring to be heterozygous (Ww) and has the trait and probability of 25% to be recessive (ww) and therefore doesn't have the trait;
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Topiramate
Topiramate is the drug which might be responsible for this malformation.
Topiramate is an anticonvulsant drug which is taken alone or with other drugs to prevent and control epilepsy. Topiramate is produced in four forms and are all taken by mouth. Topiramate has many side effects which include birth defects if is taken during pregnancy, osteoporosis, vision loss, nervousness and upper respiratory tract infection.
Answer:
Genetics is a branch of science that deals with the study of genes, their sequence, function, variation, and heredity.
Increasing understanding of genetics help in making new fields of health care, for example,
- Gene therapy helps in treating various genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis et cetera.
- Molecular genetics help in the development of more precise methods for diagnosis such as ELISA.
- Pedigree analysis and karyotypes help in early detection of possible hereditary diseases.
- DNA fingerprinting helps in detecting criminal suspects, paternity test, identification of dead organism et cetera.
