<span>This highlighted nerve plays an important role in the parasympathetic nervous system. It provides the 5 senses that your body uses every day. From touch to smelling, without this nerve, you will not have any senses in your body.</span>
<span>The correct answer is b. will have a one-quarter chance of being a sickle-cell-free homozygote.</span>
<span>Sickle-cell disease is an autosomal recessive disease, which means that <span>if two individuals who are heterozygous for the sickle-cell disease have child, there is a 25% chance of sickle-cell disease, 25% that the child will not carry any sickle-cell alleles, and 50% that it will have the heterozygous condition (will have an allele for disease).</span></span>