Based on the Activites and labs you completed, answer the following questions:

• Discuss the validity of Punnett Squares in determining paternity for a child.
• Differentiate dominant versus recessive genes and discuss how genes are either carried by one of the parents or genetic traits can “skip” a generation.
• Research and discus the term pleiotropy. What impact would this have on gene therapies?
• Discuss the effects of age on child bearing for women. Explain why women who have children later in life risk having children with genetic conditions.
• If two parents are heterozygous for a genetically inherited dominant trait, what is the probability that they will have a child together who has this trait in his or her phenotype?

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