Two Mice of the Same Species Have Different Ear Shapes

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Essay

Two mice of the same species have different ear shapes.You find that one mouse, having normal shaped ears, was caught in a field in Kenya.The other mouse, with curled ears, was caught in the frozen tundra of Greenland.You determined that both mice have identical genotypes at the known gene loci controlling ear shape.How would you explain the differences in ear shape?

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