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Of 31 children born of father-daughter matings, 6 died ininfancy, 12 were abnormal and died in childhood, and 13 werenormal. From this information calculate roughly how many recessivelethal genes we have, on average, in the human genome. (Hint: ifthe answer were 1, then the daughter would stand a 50% chance ofcarrying the lethal allele, and the probability of the union’sproducing a lethal combination would be 1/2 * 1/4 = 1/8. So, 1 isnot the answer.) Discuss the possibility of undetected fatalitiesin utero in such matings. How would they affect your result?

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The number of infants that inherited the recessive mutation are 18 612 out of 31 Hence 1831 05806 The number of normal children is 13 out of 31 This is equal to a value of 041935 or 42 The probability of not obtaining a    See Answer
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