Jermaine and shikia are healthy parents of three young children the oldest two bethany amber are healty and they are six and four respectively their child roscoe was born with peeling skin syndrome two years ago roscoes skin constantly peels and is red and itchy if jermaine and skikia have another child the probability that he or she will inherit the skin condition is

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14 November, 11:29

Jermaine and shikia are healthy parents of three young children the oldest two bethany amber are healty and they are six and four respectively their child roscoe was born with peeling skin syndrome two years ago roscoes skin constantly peels and is red and itchy if jermaine and skikia have another child the probability that he or she will inherit the skin condition is

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Ximena Greene · Answer 1

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The allele for the skin condition seems to be a recessive gene as it is not expressed in the parent's phenotype.

For the condition to show, the child must be homozygous for the skin condition. Thus, both parents have heterozygous alleles for the skin condition.

After drawing the punnett square, you can determine that there is a 50-50 chance