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#Question id: 12492


A young man with phenylketonuria, who was successfully treated following diagnosis on newborn screening, is planning to start a family with his healthy, unaffected, and unrelated partner, who has no family history of phenylketonuria . Phenylketonuria shows autosomal recessive inheritance with an incidence of 1 in 10 000. Assume that the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Which of the following is correct?

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  1. The probability that his partner is a carrier is 1 in 100.
  2. The probability that the man will transmit a mutant allele to his first child is 1 in 2.
  3. The probability that his partner will transmit a mutant allele to their first child is 1 in 50.
  4. The probability that their first child will be affected is 1 in 100.
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.________ enzyme revealed the relation between the amino acid sequence of a protein and its conformation.

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