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A woman is pregnant and wants to identify the father of her child. She admits "going wild" one night with a group of her male friends, and doesn't remember some of the details of that night. She believes there are three men who might be the father. The table below gives you everyone's genotypes for these 6 genes-i.e., the table tells you which alleles the person has for each of these 6 genes. Each genotype has two alleles in it, because we all have two copies of each of these 6 genes. Based on the genetic data and the information in the writeup, how would you expand the investigation in your effort to identify the true father of this child?

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According to the genotype the First person (Man 1) is the father of the child. Among the two allele of child one comes from father and another form mother.

Thus for the,

Gene 1 A allele came from mother (AG) and C came from father (AC).

Gene 2 T allele came from mother (CT) and A came from father (AT).

Gene 3 C allele came from mother (AC) and T came from father (GT).

Gene 4 G allele came from mother (GT) and G came from father (AG).

Gene 5 G allele came from mother (GT) and T came from father (AT).

Gene 6 C allele came from mother (GC) and A came from father (AC).

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