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Haemophilia MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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Represented below is the inheritance pattern of certain type of traits in humans. Which one of the following conditions could be an example of this pattern?

The incorrect statement with regard to Haemophilia is:

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Haemophilia
  • It is a sex-linked recessive disease, which is transmitted from an unaffected carrier female to some of the male offsprings. 
  • Due to this, the patient continues bleeding even on a minor injury because of defective blood coagulation. 
  • In this disease, a single protein that is a part of the cascade of proteins involved in the clotting of blood is affected. 
  • Due to this, in an affected individual, a simple cut will result in non-stop bleeding.
  • The possibility of a female becoming haemophilic is extremely rare because the mother of such a female has to be at least carrier and the father should be haemophilic (unviable in the later stage of life). 
  • The family pedigree of Queen Victoria shows a number of haemophilic descendants as she was a carrier of the disease.

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