Assortative Mating Occurs When

question 18

Multiple Choice

Assortative mating occurs when:

• A)people with certain phenotypes mate at nonrandom frequencies
• B)siblings or other very closely related people mate
• C)people mate at random with regard to phenotype
• D)none of the above

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