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A person with sickle-cell anaemia is
BiologyHuman Health and Diseases
Options:
  • A
    more prone tomalaria
  • B
    more prone to typhoid
  • C
    less prone to malaria
  • D
    less prone to typhoid
Solution:
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The correct answer is:
less prone to malaria
Sickle-cell anaemia is related with malaria not to typhoid and person suffering from sickle-cell anaemia are resistant to malarial parasite and RBC of sickle-cell anaemia patients is distored in shape that is not affected by Plasmodium sp. It is known that heterozygotes \( \left(\mathrm{Hb}^{\mathrm{S}} / \mathrm{HB}^{\mathrm{A}}\right) \), having both types of haemoglobin show resistance to malarial infection because the body targets the \( P \). falcipanum infected cells for destruction. In contrast, due to malarial infection individuals homozygous for normal haemoglobin \( \left(\mathrm{Hb}^A / \mathrm{Hb}^{\mathrm{A}}\right) \) suffer

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