A student comes across the following symbol in a pedigree chart. The disease is definitely:

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A student comes across the following symbol in a pedigree chart. The disease is definitely:, Autosomal dominant, Autosomal recessive, X linked dominant, X linked recessive

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The given symbol is of a carrier male. Carriers only occur in recessive diseases. Males are never carriers in X-linked diseases because they have only one X chromosome. Thus, this symbol can be present in autosomal recessive disease only.

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