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Chapter 12, Problem 6U

Phenotypes like height in humans, which show a continuous distribution, are usually the result of

a. an alteration of dominance for multiple alleles of a single gene.

b. the presence of multiple alleles for a single gene.

c. the action of one gene on multiple phenotypes.

d. the action of multiple genes on a single phenotype.

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