MediumBotanyPrinciples of Inheritance & Variation
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Identify the INCORRECT statement regarding Mendelian inheritance:
A
Dominance is an autonomous feature of a gene.
B
In a dissimilar pair of factors, one member of the pair dominates the other.
C
Factors occur in pairs.
D
The Law of Segregation is universal and has no exceptions.
Explanation
Dominance is not an autonomous feature of a gene; it depends as much on the gene product and the production of a particular phenotype from this product as it does on the particular phenotype that we choose to examine.
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