Concepts of Biology
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Author: Samantha Fowler, Rebecca Roush, James Wise
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Chapter 8, Problem 13RQ
When a population has a gene with four alleles circulating, how many possible genotypes are there?
a.3
b.6
c. 10
d. 16
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