Question

One of Mendel’s Laws says that the probability of inheriting a maternal allele for a gene does not affect the probability of inheriting the maternal allele for another gene. If each gene has two alleles, what is the probability that one individual inherited the paternal allele at three different genes?

Answer 1

Answer:

There's 2 alleles for every quality and there are 3 qualities. The likelihood of acquiring the fatherly allele of those 3 qualities would be 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2. This is on the grounds that you have a 50/50 possibility of getting the allele from your mom or your dad for three unique alleles. Since you are making sense of the likelihood of acquiring 3 qualities from your dad you duplicate at that point to get 1/8.