Organisms Generally Have Many More Genes That Assort Independently Than

question 30

Multiple Choice

Organisms generally have many more genes that assort independently than the number of chromosomes.This phenomenon is due to

• A)independent assortment.
• B)segregation.
• C)crossing over.
• D)epistasis.
• E)pleiotropy.

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