If a healthy young couple are both carriers of cystic fibrosis, the chance that each of their future children will inherit this serious illness is

a) 0%, because cystic fibrosis is not an inherited illness.
b) 25%.
c) 10%.
d) 50%.
e) 100%.


Ans: b) 25%.

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