Use the Following Pedigree (Figure 14

question 14

Multiple Choice

Use the following pedigree (Figure 14.3) for a family in which dark-shaded symbols represent individuals with one of the two major types of colon cancer. Numbers under the symbols are the individual's age at the time of diagnosis.

Figure 14.3
-From this pedigree, how does this trait seem to be inherited?

• A) from mothers
• B) as an autosomal recessive
• C) as a result of epistasis
• D) as an autosomal dominant
• E) as an incomplete dominant

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