Reproduction

Here's where the probability comes in. When a child is conceived, it gets one allele from each parent, chosen uniformly at random.

Thus, a homozygous positive parent and a heterozygous parent will have a homozygous positive child with probability .5 and a heterozygous child with probability .5.

Probabilities for two heterozygous parents?


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