Question 5

Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) has a bitter taste. Non-tasting ability is reported to be due to recessive allele of the taster gene. In random populations about 30% people lack the ability to taste PTC. A non-taster woman is married to a PTC taster man and has three children. The first two children are born as non-tasters. What is the probability that their third child will be born a non-taster?

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