A Person with Sickle-Cell Trait Has ________ at the Beta-Globin

question 11

Multiple Choice

A person with sickle-cell trait has ________ at the beta-globin locus.

• A) one mutant and one deleted allele
• B) two wild-type alleles
• C) two mutant alleles
• D) one wild-type and one deleted allele
• E) one wild-type and one mutant allele

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