Sickle cell anemia is known to run in a family. A pedigree chart for this family is shown below

What percentage of the offspring are carriers of the disease but do not have it ?

Sickle cell anemia is known to run in a family A pedigree chart for this family is shown below What percentage of the offspring are carriers of the disease but class=

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In pedegree charts, 
a square stands for a male
a circle, female
black filled: phenotype expressed
half filled, heterozygous, hence carriers.

So according to the pedigree diagram, two of the four offsprings (both daughters) are heterozygous, or carriers, of sickle cell anemia.

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