Which of the following inheritance patterns is matched with an inaccurate molecular basis?
A. Sex-influenced: Hormones alter the expression of proteins encoded by dominant and recessive alleles.
B. Incomplete dominance: The protein produced by a wild-type allele affects the phenotype in a concentration-dependent manner.
C. Simple Mendelian inheritance: The protein produced by a single allele cannot produce the dominant phenotype.
D. X-linked: Hemizygotes with the recessive allele do not make a functional protein, but heterozygotes do.
E. Codominance: Two proteins are produced in heterozygotes.
Answer: C
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