In 1995, a sixty-three-year-old man named Eugene Romanov, a resident of the former Soviet Union, turned up. He shared both the disease and his last name with the royal family of czarist Russia. He proclaimed himself a grandson of Nikolas II's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose body had at that time not been recovered, and who was believed by some to have managed to survive the revolution. Eugene Romanov claimed Anastasia was raised by a farmer, and later she married a nephew of her adopted parents and had a daughter, Eugene's mother Questions
(a) According to Eugene's argument, what was the likely hemophilic status of Eugene's mother and grandmother? What about his father and grandfather? Is this argument plausible
(b) How plausible is it that Eugene inherited both hemophilia and the last name from the royal family? (Hint: Look how each of them is passed from generation to generation.)
