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Question 30

In a population of rabbits, a recessive coat characteristic is much more common than the dominant one. What does this show?

  1. That dominance does not decide how common a characteristic isCorrect answer
  2. That the recessive allele has turned into a dominant one
  3. That the record of which allele is dominant must be wrong
  4. That a dominant characteristic is always the rarer one

Explanation

How often a characteristic turns up depends on how common its allele is in that population, not on which allele masks the other when the two meet. Dominance is a rule about what happens inside one organism, so it places no limit at all on the numbers counted across a whole population.

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