A woman who is a carrier for hemophilia marries a man who does not have hemophilia. What are the chances of them having a son or daughter with hemophilia? Show your work.

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The chances are 50/50.

They can have 1 son with it, or they can 1 son without it. They can also have 1 daughter with it, or they have 1 daughter without it.

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If a woman has hemophilia and marries a man who does not have hemophilia, she will have a 25% chance of having a son with hemophilia, a 25% chance of having a daughter with hemophilia, a 25% chance of having a  son without hemophilia and a 25% chance of having a daughter without hemophilia.

This is due to hemophilia being conditioned by the recessive gene "h", carriers of the "H" gene do not have the disease. Thus, a woman with the disease would have the [tex]X^{H} X^{h}[/tex] genes, while a man without the disease would have the [tex]X^{H} Y^{H}[/tex] genes. The cross between these two would be [tex]X^{H} X^{h}[/tex]  x [tex]X^{H} Y^{H}[/tex] = [tex]X^{H} X^{H}[/tex](daughter without hemophilia), [tex]X^{H} X^{h}[/tex] (daughter with hemophilia), [tex]X^{H} Y^{H}[/tex] (son without hemophilia), [tex]X^{h} Y^{H}[/tex] (son with hemophilia).