How Could You Best Predict the Maximum Number of Alleles

question 24

Multiple Choice

How could you best predict the maximum number of alleles for a single gene whose polypeptide product is known?

• A) Search the population for all phenotypic variants of this polypeptide.
• B) Count the number of amino acids in the polypeptide.
• C) Mate all known genotypes and collect all possible offspring different from the parents.
• D) Measure the rate of new mutations in the species and estimate the number since it first evolved.
• E) Count the number of DNA nucleotides that are in the code for the polypeptides.

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