Achondroplasia is a form of human dwarfism. If two individuals with achondroplasia have children with the following ratio, 2 dwarf to 1 wild type, what is the means of inheritance of this phenotype?

A) epistasis
B) recessive lethal
C) dominant lethal
D) simple recessive
E) simple dominance


Answer: C

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