In familial hypercholesterolemia, homozygous people with the abnormal gene have extremely high cholesterol, while heterozygous people have somewhat high cholesterol.  This type of inheritance is called

A. complete dominance.
B. sex-linked inheritance.
C. multiple alleles.
D. incomplete dominance.
E. codominance.


Answer: D

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