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A population of humans contains the following frequencies for the A, B and O alleles at the I blood type locus: A = 0.6, B = 0.2 and O = 0.2. A female of blood type A marries a type B male. What is the probability that they produce an offspring of blood-type AB?
Answer: The probability of offspring blood group type AB is 0.12
Comments: In probability, if two events are occurring together, then the individual probability of both the events are multiply to get the probability of occurrence of together events. In the above question the probability of A blood group is 0.6 and B blood group is 0.2. So the occurrence of AB blood group after marriage of A blood group female with B blood group male is
Probability of occurrence of AB blood group = Probability of (A blood group X probability of B blood group)
= (0.6 X 0.2) = 0.12
So the probability of occurrence of AB blood group offspring is 0.12