In areas where malaria is prevalent, it is best to be heterozygous for the sickle-cell allele. This results in a situation referred to as:

A. heterozygous polymorphism
B. balanced phenotypism
C. balanced polymorphism
D. a multiple allele series


C. balanced polymorphism

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