Cystic Fibrosis?
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at
10:36 am
doubleOshoe asked:
Which of the following genotypes represent people who have the cystic fibrosis phenotype:
CC
or
Cc
or
cc
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Filed under: Cystic Fibrosis
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cc, it is recessive
It would be cc (recessive form) because the if you have CC or Cc you would not have cystic fibrosis.
Cc is a carrier. They do not have the disease. You need 2 carriers to have a child with CF. For each child they have, there is a 25% chance that the child will have CF.