In the general population, 1 in 300 individuals is a carrier for Tay-Sachs disease, while 1 in 30 individuals of Ashkenazi Jew d
escent are carriers. Tay-Sachs also affects 1 in 30 individuals with French-Canadian ancestry, although two completely unique mutations are responsible for the Ashkenazi and French-Canadian mutations. A) What are the chances of two individuals having a child with Tay-Sachs if both individuals are not of Ashkenazi or Franch-Canadian descent?
B) What are the chances of two Individuals having a ¢hild with Tay-Sachs lf one Individual Is of Ashkenazi descent and one ls not?
The structures of the respiratory system interact with structures of the skeletal, circulatory, and muscular systems to help you smell, speak, and move oxygen into your bloodstream and waste out of it.
Basically it is more complex then just one locus gene interaction, but basically if both parents have brown hair they can have a child with blonde hair because both parents could be heterozygous for brown and pass on the recessive allele for blonde hair. in simple genetic analysis this would happen to 25% of the children.
