Steven has the dominant tongue rolling phenotype but he does not know his genotype. His wife has the recessive non-tongue rolling trait. If their son cannot roll his tongue this means ________

A) Steven has a heterozygous genotype
B) that it is impossible to tell Steven's genotype from this information alone
C) Steven has a homozygous dominant genotype
D) Steven has a homozygous recessive genotype


A

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