Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which red blood cells become disto

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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which red blood cells become distorted and deprived of oxygen. A person with two sickle cell genes will have the disease, but a person with only one sickle cell gene will have a mild, non-fatal anemia called sickle cell trait. Using S to represent the sickle cell gene, and s a healthy gene, the table shows the four possibilities for the children of two Ss parents. Find the probability that these parents give birth to a child who has sickle cell anemia. P(child has sickle cell anemia) = (Type an integer or a simplified fraction.)

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since there is tolal four possible condtion of health of child

Now as we can see that there is only one case when chid has sickle cell anemia '

the probabilit that chid has sickle cell anemia = total of possible condition that children has sickle cell anemia/ all total possible ways

= 1 /4 =

= 0.25

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