A certain type of congenital deafness in humans is caused by a rare autosomal dominant gene. In a mating involving a deaf man and a deaf woman, could all the children have normal hearing? Explain your answer

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Assuming that the parents are heterozygotes (because the gene is rare), it is possible that all of the children could have normal hearing.

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