If you swallow gum, you may have heard that it will take 7 years to digest. Well, that is just a myth! Gum may be hard for your body to digest, but the gum just moves through your digestive tract as a whole and you - you know - poop it out.
Answer:
There is a 50% chance of getting Huntingdon's disease.
Explanation:
Assume the affected parent is Hh, where H is the Huntingdon's disease allele and h is the unaffected allele. One parent is unaffected, or hh. You have a 50% chance of getting the H allele from the affected parent.
If I had the choice to get tested, for Huntingdon's disease, I would do it. I would want to know so that I wouldn't live my life worrying about it everyday.
Synthesis releases energy because the molecules bond to form a stable configuration and therefore give up energy. The bonded molecules have a lower energy level than free molecules and are held in the new bond.
