A genetic disease that causes death in infancy and has an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern can persist in a population because: Check all that apply.
A. If both parents are carriers, they have a 50% chance of having normal children.
B. Individuals with one abnormal allele do not show symptoms of the disease.
C. Only homozygotes for the abnormal allele will have the disease.
D. It can be passed on to the next generation by a heterozygous carrier.
Answer: D
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__ are not found in the seminiferous tubules
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