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Individuals of genotype AaBb were crossed with aabb individuals. Approximately equal numbers of the following classes of offspring were produced: AaBb, Aabb, aaBb, and aabb. These results illustrate Mendel’s principle(s) of (a) linkage (b) independent assortment (c) segregation (d) a and c (e) b and c
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