Professor Wen is lecturing his class about Huntington's Disease. He tells the class that it is a genetic disorder caused by _____.
A. a recessive gene on the X chromosome
B. duplication of chromosome 21
C. genes passed down from the father
D. a dominant gene on chromosome 4
Answer: D
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