If both parents are carriers of the defective CF gene, what is the chance that their child will have cystic fibrosis?

Cystic fibrosis is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition. If both parents are carriers, each has one defective copy and one working copy, so a child has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting both defective copies. That is 25%, the choice “25%.”

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