Which one of these statements about the hereditary lineage of the Y chromosome is not correct?

A. Ninety-four percent of the Y chromosome
consists of sequences in which genetic
linkage is complete.
B. Because of complete linkage, each
hereditary lineage of Y chromosomes is
separate from every other lineage.
C. Mutations along any given Y chromosome
are often lost over time.
D. Each unique combination of nucleotides
along a Y chromosome constitutes a Ychromosome
haplotype.
E. Mutations that occur along the Y
chromosome are completely linked to any
past or future mutations along that
chromosome.


C

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