In the Article, "A Feckless Quest for the Basketball Gene

question 55

Multiple Choice

In the article, "A Feckless Quest for the Basketball Gene," Jonathan Marks argues that:

• A) associating athletics and race is based on make-believe genetics and applied to naively-conceptualized groups of individuals
• B) associating athletics and race is based on a set of genetic factors that are rarely found in any group anywhere
• C) blacks do not have an athletic ability at all
• D) athletic ability is based solely on an individual's genetic factors

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