Which Statement Is NOT True About Nonrandom Mating

question 60

Multiple Choice

Which statement is NOT true about nonrandom mating?

• A)Inbreeding is mating between relatives more often than by chance
• B)Inbreeding is a change in allele frequencies that increases the proportion of heterozygotes in the population
• C)An example of positive assortative mating is when a tall man marries a tall woman
• D)Assortative mating tends to cause subdivision into two phenotypic classes with reduced gene flow between them

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