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Edward was found to be heterozygous (Ss ) for sickle-cell trait. The alleles represented by the letters S and s are
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on homologous chromosomes
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Whether an allele is dominant or recessive depends on
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whether it is inherited from the mother or the father.
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Two fruit flies with eyes of the usual red color are crossed, and their offspring as as follows: 77 red-eyed males, 71 ruby-eyed males, 152 red-eyed females. The allele for ruby eyes is
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sex-linked and recessive
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All the offspring of a white hen and a black rooster are gray. The simplest expanation for this pattern of inheritance is:
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incomplete dominance
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In some of his experiments, Mendel studied the inheritance patterns of two characteristics at once- flower color and pod color, for example. He did this to find out
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wheter genes for the two characteristics are inherited together or separetly
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A man who has type B blood and a woman who has type A blood could have children of which of the following phenotypes?
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A, A, AB, or O
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