Digestion is of two types, mechanical and chemical. Food first enters the mouth where it is mechanically digested by the teeth and chemically digested by the enzymes in the saliva. Next, food travels to the pharynx and then the esophagus via peristaltic motion of the muscles. Then the food enters the stomach, where chemical digestion is completed. The broken down food is sent to the small intestine for absorption and then the large intestine to have water removed and then be expelled from the body.
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If mother 1 is a carrier of hemophilia, it is likely that her son would in fact have hemophilia while the son of mother 2 does not. Mother 1 would have the genotype XᴴXʰ, meaning she has one recessive allele for hemophilia, while the father would have the genotype XᴴY, and would neither be afflicted with hemophilia nor carry it. If you do a punnett square, it shows that the son of mother 1 would have a 50% chance of having hemophilia, since he wouldn't have a second X chromosome with a dominant allele to mask the recessive hemophilia allele. Also, if mother 2 has the homozygous dominant genotype XᴴXᴴ despite the father having hemophilia and the genotype XʰY, a punnett square for this couple proves that their son would have a 0% chance of having hemophilia. Therefore, it is very likely that their sons were not switched at birth and the correct answer is D: The fact that the father in couple 2 has hemophilia would not predispose his son to hemophilia. The first couple has no valid claim. Hope this helped!
Answer:Mutations can affect the body by altering its physical characteristics (or phenotype), or they can affect how DNA (genotype) information is encoded on the organism.
Explanation: three ways a mutation can affect an organism:
Some mutations have no significant effect on the phenotype of the organism. This can happen in many situations: a mutation may occur in a non-functional DNA fragment, or a mutation may occur in the protein encoding region, but ultimately does not affect the sequence of protein amino acids.
