Please explain. ). Analyze the two pedigrees shown below and choose the statemen

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). Analyze the two pedigrees shown below and choose the statement that is CORRECT. Pedigree 1 Pedigree 2 A. Pedigree 1 may represent autosomal dominant inheritance but not autosomal recessive inheritance B. Pedigree 1 may represent autosomal recessive inheritance but not autosomal dominant inheritance C. Both pedigrees may represent autosomal dominant inheritance D. Both pedigrees may represent autosomal recessive inhcritance E. Pedigree 1 may represent autosomal dominant inheritance and pedigree 2 may represent autosomal recessive inheritance

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both pedigrees may explain autosomal dominant inheritance which can be explained as in pedigree two one child is ot affected this may be because the parents are heterozygous for the dominnant trait and not homozygous and hence the child unaffected has aquired the recessive trait from both parents and hence is unaffected

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