Haploinsufficiency ____

a. produces Barr bodies

b. results from elevated gene dosage
c. occurs when a diploid organism has only one functional copy of a gene
d. occurs due to gene duplication
e. refers to the loss of a whole set of chromosomes


ANSWER: c

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