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Question 1
How many pairs of homologous chromosomes do humans have?
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14
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Question 2
What do geneticists call different versions of the same gene?
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Alleles
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Loci
SNPs
Neutral Mutations
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True or false: A dominant allele masks or blocks a recessive allele.
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True
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False
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Question 4
When a trait is expressed at different degree in different people with the genotype, it is called:
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A broken gene
Incomplete penetrance
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Variable expressivity
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Dominance
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Question 5
True or false: Pleiotropic genes affect a single physical trait.
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