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Sickle cell anaemia is...

Sickle cell anaemia is

A

Autosomal dominant inheritance

B

X-linked recessive inheritance

C

Autosomal recessive inheritance

D

X-linked dominant inheritance

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The correct Answer is:
C
Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by single nucleotide base pair change resulted in change in amino acid from glutamic acid to valine and thus shape of RBC get sickle shape and oxygen carrying capacity decreases.
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