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Many Genetic Diseases Have Severe or Lethal Effects in the Homozygous

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Many genetic diseases have severe or lethal effects in the homozygous form, yet alleles for these diseases are not entirely removed by natural selection. Explain how dominance relationships among alleles allow deleterious mutations to remain in a population.


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