Imagine that horn color in Hodags (folkloric creatures of Wisconsin) is controlled by a single gene. You mate a Hodag homozygous for a bright orange horns (COCO) with a Hodag homozygous for ivory horns (CICI). Numerous offspring are produced, all with pale orange horns. This pattern of inheritance of horn color can best be described as
A. codominance.
B. recombination.
C. incomplete dominance.
D. complete dominance.
E. environmental effects on phenotype.
C. incomplete dominance.
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A. hybridization B. restriction C. ligation D. hydrolysis
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a. pepsin b. trypsin c. amylase d. pepsinogen e. lipase
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