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1. A mother with type A blood and a father with type B have children with type A

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Question

1. A mother with type A blood and a father with type B have children with type AB, type O, and type B. This pedigree can be explained by: A. Epistasis B. Independent assortment C. Pleiotropy D. Segregation 2. Which of the following phenomena may be the LEAST likely to cause changes in allele frequencies over time within populations? A. Assortative mating B. Founder effects C. Migration of a small fraction of a large population D. Directional selection E. Population bottlenecks F. Point mutations: frameshifts G. Chromosomal mutation gene insertion

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

1). C. Pleiotropy

Explanation:

Pleiotropy occurs when one gene will code and control the phenotype or expression of several different and unrelated traits.

2). Migration of a small fraction of a large population