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Q: What are the chances of getting Huntington's if one of your parents are heterozygous?
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How do you inherit Huntington's?

Huntingtons disease is inherited from your parents


How is huntingtons disease inherited?

Its Passed On From Your Parents Its Inherited


If purple flower color is dominant over white flower color how can two purple flowered parents produce while flowered offspring?

It can happen when both parents are a heterozygous


If both your parents have brain tumors what are the chances of you getting the same?

the chances are 1 out of 5 that you willget one to


Can you give me a sentence using the word heterozygous?

Heterozygous means inheriting different genes from your parents. That is a heterozygous trait, not a homozygous one.


If children with blood group O and a what could be the blood group of parents?

both parents could be A heterozygous or one A heterozygous and the other O


Why do children have characteristics of both their mother and father?

Children have similar characteristic's to their parents because when they are conceived, both of the parents genes unify to create a new set of characteristic'd depending on dominant and recessive traits. For example, Jane and Henry find out they are having a baby. Jane has homozygous blue eyes whilst Henry has heterozygous brown eyes. The chances are that their baby will either have 50% homozygous blue eyes or 50% heterozygous brown eyes.


Is AA an homozygous or an heterozygous?

AA could be either homozygous or heterozygous, depending on whether the individual inherited the same allele (A) from both parents (homozygous) or different alleles (Aa) from each parent (heterozygous).


You are A your wife is O- what will the child be?

Your child can be anything. It doesn't really matter what the parents are. Anything that runs through the family your child can be. The chances of being an O are very small but it is still possible. It depends on whether or not you are homozygous or heterozygous A. All O blood is genetically homozygous. If you are blood type AO then there is a 50% chance of Homozygous O (OO) and 50% chance of heterozygous A (AO). If you are Blood type AA then there is a 100% chance of heterozygous A (AO)


What causes huningtons disease?

Huntingtons disease is a genetic/inherited diesease. It is caused by a faulty allele (a dominant one), which can be inherited by parents. Spontanoius mutations may also occur which would cause the faulty gene and therefore huntingtons disorder.


If both parents are heterozygous for polydactyly what percentage of offspring will exhibit polydactyly?

75%


Will parents with a positive blood type have children with a positive blood type?

There is 50% that children will be of negative blood type if parents are heterozygous positive. 25% if one parent is homozygous and other heterozygous. 0% if both homozygous.