The Reason Recessive Genetic Disorders Are More Frequent Than Disorders

question 103

Multiple Choice

The reason recessive genetic disorders are more frequent than disorders inherited as dominant is that ________.

• A) people carrying dominant genetic disorders always die before birth
• B) recessive genetic disorders are limited to persons of the same ethnicity
• C) carriers are not eliminated by the disease before passing the defective alleles on to their offspring
• D) dominant genetic disorders are never expressed in males

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