Concepts of Biology
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ISBN: 9781938168116
Author: Samantha Fowler, Rebecca Roush, James Wise
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 8, Problem 10RQ
If black and white true-breeding mice are mated and the result is all gray offspring, what inheritance pattern would this be indicative of?
a. dominance
b. codominance
c. multiple alleles
d. incomplete dominance
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