Acho ndroplasia is a form of dwarfism caused by a dominant allele. the homozygous dominant genotype causes death, so individuals who have this condition are all heterozygotes. if a person with acho ndroplasia mates with a person who does not have acho ndroplasia, what percentage of their children would be expected to have acho ndroplasia?

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21 July, 14:57

Acho ndroplasia is a form of dwarfism caused by a dominant allele. the homozygous dominant genotype causes death, so individuals who have this condition are all heterozygotes. if a person with acho ndroplasia mates with a person who does not have acho ndroplasia, what percentage of their children would be expected to have acho ndroplasia?

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Phantom · Answer 1

The percentage of people that will have acho ndroplasia would be 50 % or 1/2. This is because by simply performing a punnet square for this mono hybrid cross. We can see that it would be a cross between:

Aa X aa

This would result in 50 % of the offspring to display the genotype of aa and the remaining 50 % to display Aa.