Temperature-sensitive alleles that kill an organism only in a particular temperature range are examples of ________.

a. semilethal alleles
b. lethal alleles
c. conditional lethal alleles
d. essential genes
e. nonessential genes


Ans: c. conditional lethal alleles

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