Galactosemia is an inherited disorder in humans a person with the disorder cannot digest the sugars in the allelebfor normal digestion (G) is dominant the allele for (g) is recessive a female who is heterozygous for the galactosemia trait and a male who has galactosemia have a child

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Dottie

5 May, 23:54

Galactosemia is an inherited disorder in humans a person with the disorder cannot digest the sugars in the allelebfor normal digestion (G) is dominant the allele for (g) is recessive a female who is heterozygous for the galactosemia trait and a male who has galactosemia have a child

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Colt · Answer 1

The Genotype of the father is gg; The possible genotypes of offspring will be

Gg; gg; Gg; gg. Therefore there is a 50% chance that the child will have galactosemia. The parents could have had; both had gg genotype, or both had Gg genotype, or one had gg and the other Gg.