Question
Study the given pedigree chart and answer the questions that follow.
  1. Is the trait recessive or dominant?
  2. Is the trait sex linked or autosomal?
  3. Give the genotypes of the parents shown in generation I and their III child shown in generation II and the first grandchild shown in generation III.

Answer

  1. Dominant.
  2. Autosomal.
  3. Parents-Mother- aa.
Father-Aa.

Third child-Aa.

First grand-child-Aa.

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