Question

In Steps 11-12, you saw that cystic fibrosis is caused when specific sections of both copies of chromosome 8 are deleted. On the basis of this information, do you think cystic fibrosis is a dominant or recessive trait?

Answer 1

Answer:

recessive trait disorder

Explanation:

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder. This is the type of disease you can only inherit if both of your parents contribute a single copy of a recessive gene (in this case, the CFTR mutation). By definition, a recessive gene is one that can be masked by a dominant gene

Answer 2

Answer:

Recessive trait disorder.

Explanation: