If an organism is diploid and a certain gene found in the organism has eighteen known alleles (variants), then any given organism of that species can/must have which of the following?

A) at most, two alleles for that gene
B) up to eighteen chromosomes with that gene
C) up to eighteen genes for that trait
D) a haploid number of nine chromosomes
E) up to, but not more than, eighteen different traits


Answer: A

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