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QUESTION 1: Homework Statement 9. Your first cousin died of Tay-Sachs disease (autosomal recessive, incidence 0.09% (about 1 in 1100)). You are not affected, nor is anyone else in your extended family. What is the approximate chance that you are a carrier? A. 5.8% B. 12.5% C. 25% D. 50% E...

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Can you explain further why can't you do the opposite by "calculate the genotype frequencies if you know the allele frequencies"?

Hi, everyone, I was hoping if you can clear up some confusion for me. I have the questions and book answer to these homework problem. The hard part for me is understanding WHY these answer turn out to be the way it is. 1: Hardy-weinberg: Homework Statement 14.4 Consider a population that...