If 10% of the human population exhibited an undesirable recessive human trait, sterilizing all those showing the trait would completely eliminate this gene in humans in about ____ generation(s). 

A. one
B. ten
C. ninety
D. It would never eliminate it.
 


D. It would never eliminate it.

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