Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337408332
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 13, Problem 11SQ
One gene that affects three traits is an example of ______.
- a. dominance
- b. codominance
- c. pleiotropy
- d. epistasis
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Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 13 - Prob. 1DAACh. 13 - Prob. 2DAACh. 13 - Prob. 3DAACh. 13 - Prob. 1SQCh. 13 - An organisms observable traits constitute its...Ch. 13 - Prob. 3SQCh. 13 - Prob. 4SQCh. 13 - The offspring of the cross AA aa are ________. a....Ch. 13 - Refer to question 5. Assuming complete dominance,...Ch. 13 - A testcross is a way to determine ________. a....
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