How does sickle cell disease help protect against malaria

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Spazm · Answer 1 · 2018-08-09T14:01:43+0000

if sickle cells inherit 2 faulty copies gene for the oxygen carrying protein. the faulty gene persists because even carrying 1 copy of it confers some resistance to malaria.

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