Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease. The allele for cystic fibrosis is recessive. What does this mean?

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Biology

Houston Valdez

4 May, 04:06

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease. The allele for cystic fibrosis is recessive. What does this mean?

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Dalia Dillon · Answer 1

Cystic fibrosis can be carried in a heterozygote and affect a homozygous offspring.

Xander Payne · Answer 2

Cystic fibrosis is an example of a recessive disease. That means a person must have a mutation in both copies of the CFTR gene to have CF. If someone has a mutation in only one copy of the CFTR gene and the other copy is normal, he or she does not have CF and is a CF carrier.