Create a pedigree chart that depicts an inheritance pattern of an autosomal dominant characteristic. Use circles to depict females and squares to depict males. Colored shapes represent affected individuals (expressing a trait) and uncolored shapes are unaffected (do not express a trait).
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may vary. This figure depicts the pattern of an autosomal dominant characteristic. The parents are heterozygous, and are affected because of the dominance of the trait. The offspring has received the recessive trait from both parents and is therefore not affected.
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