Humans Carry All of the Genes Necessary to Develop a Tail

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Multiple Choice

Humans carry all of the genes necessary to develop a tail, but we typically don't develop tails because:

• A) those genes are never activated.
• B) those genes can only be activated by external factors that no longer exist in our present environment.
• C) we have also inherited a copy of the dominant "no tails" gene.
• D) we have also inherited two recessive "no tails" genes.

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