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Cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive diseasecharacterized by two copies of a mutated CFTR gene. If one in 100people in the United States have cystic fibrosis and one in5.0505050505 people are carriers for cystic fibrosis, calculate thenumber of individuals that are homozygous dominant. In other words,how many people would have two copies of the normal (non-mutated)CFTR gene. Use the Hardy-Weinberg equation and explain how youdetermined this. 

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Answer As cystic fibrosis is autosomal recessive that means if only both the alleles are mutated then the only disease will only happen That means patients have to    See Answer
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