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question 14

Multiple Choice

Please use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
A man who is an achondroplastic dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was 6 feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.
-Mendel accounted for the observation that traits that had disappeared in the F1 generation reappeared in the F2 generation by proposing that

• A) new mutations were frequently generated in the F2 progeny, "reinventing" traits that had been lost in the F1.
• B) the mechanism controlling the appearance of traits was different between the F1 and the F2 plants.
• C) traits can be dominant or recessive, and the recessive traits were "hidden" by the dominant ones in the F1.
• D) the traits were lost in the F1 due to dominance of the parental traits.
• E) members of the F1 generation had only one allele for each trait, but members of the F2 had two alleles for each trait.

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