AP Biology Question?! Sickle-cell?

Posted on 2014-04-17 08:26:00 in Biology by O HAI DUR.

Heterozygotes at the sickle-cell locus produce both normal and abnormal (sickle-cell hemoglobin. When hemoglobin molecules are packed into the red blood cells of a hetero-zygote individual, some cells receive a relatively large quantity of abnormal hemoglobin, which makes these cells prone to "sickling". Explain how these molecular and cellular events lead to emergent properties at the individual and population levels of biological organization.



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