KROK 1 2010 – Question 103 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A family of students who came from Africa got a child with anemia signs. The child died soon. Examination revealed that the child’s erythrocytes have abnormal semilunar shape. Specify genotypes of the child’s parents:
- A. Aa x AA
- B. Aa x Aa
- C. AA x AA
- D. Aa x aa
- E. aa x aa
Hint
Consider the inheritance pattern of this haemoglobin disorder and which alleles both parents must have passed on to a child who died of it.
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