In court, a healthy couple claims that their child was replaced i...

2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance

Pedigrees

2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance

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Both parents are possibly cystic fibrosis carriers.

The child could have caught cystic fibrosis as a result of an infection.

The child could have caught cystic fibrosis through a blood transfusion.

One of the parents had cystic fibrosis as a child, which got cured.

In court, a healthy couple claims that their child was replaced in the hospital since the one they are raising now has cystic fibrosis. As a student of genetics, why do you think that their claim is potentially wrong?