Homozygotes with two sickle-cell alleles are selected against because of mortality. However, heterozygotes for sickle-cell allel
e experience little effects of sickle allele and are more likely to survive malaria. The net effect of this exposure produced evolutionary change in areas where malaria is endemic by ________. causing sickle-cell allele
distortion of red blood cells
increasing sickle-cell allele frequency
increasing the number of infected mosquitoes
The increasing in sickle-cell allele frequency is experienced by the person effected.
Explanation:
Homozygotes with two sickle-cell alleles are selected against because of mortality. However, heterozygotes for sickle-cell allele experience little effects of sickle allele and are more likely to survive malaria. The net effect of this exposure produced evolutionary change in areas where malaria is endemic by <u>increasing sickle-cell allele frequency</u>.
Sickle cell anemia is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. In the United States, approximately 100,000 people have SCD. SCD occurs in about 1 of every 16,300 Hispanic-American births. Approximately 1 in 13 black or African Americans has sickle cell trait.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of people throughout the world and is particularly common among those whose ancestors came from sub-Saharan Africa; Spanish-speaking regions in the Western Hemisphere (South America, the Caribbean, and Central America); Saudi Arabia; India; and Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Greece, and Italy.
