A) Two wavy haired people (one male and one female) have eight children. Of these eight, how many would you expect to be curly haired, how many wavy haired, and how many straight haired, assuming that the family follows the expected statistically predicted pattern?

B) Suppose you examine the actual children and discover that three of the eight have curly hair. What do you suppose when wrong?

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Lailah Boyer

Biology

4 March, 23:00

A) Two wavy haired people (one male and one female) have eight children. Of these eight, how many would you expect to be curly haired, how many wavy haired, and how many straight haired, assuming that the family follows the expected statistically predicted pattern?

B) Suppose you examine the actual children and discover that three of the eight have curly hair. What do you suppose when wrong?

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Alexander Boyer · Answer 1

Answer: Following the statistically predicted pattern all children are expected to have wavy hair since there was no indication that either parent possessed an allele for curly hair.

If discovered that 3 out of the right children had curly hair, then one of the parent had an allele for curly hair but the allele is recessive