Malaria Treatment
April 24, 2009
Tagged as: Malaria, Sickle Cell
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Yes, the heterozygote advantage keeps the sickle cell allele present. People with the sickle cell allele that are heterozygote have a resistance to malaria.
Yes. People who are heterozygous for sickle cell are more likely to survive and reproduce than those people who have no copies of the allele.
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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Yes, the heterozygote advantage keeps the sickle cell allele present. People with the sickle cell allele that are heterozygote have a resistance to malaria.
Yes. People who are heterozygous for sickle cell are more likely to survive and reproduce than those people who have no copies of the allele.