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Question 87

Which of these characteristics is fixed by inherited alleles alone?

  1. The mass of muscle a person has built up through training
  2. How tall a person grows
  3. A person's blood groupCorrect answer
  4. How dark a person's skin becomes after a summer outdoors

Explanation

Blood group is settled by the alleles a person receives at fertilisation and stays the same whatever that person eats, trains for or lives through, so nothing in a lifetime moves it. Skin darkening after a summer outdoors is the closest rival, since inherited alleles do set how strongly a person responds, but the darkening itself comes and goes with the sunlight received and so is not fixed by alleles on their own.

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