Explain what genetic ‘trick’ could have confounded Mendel is his recognition of segregation? What will be an ideal response?
If Mendel had picked traits controlled by a pleiotropic gene, he would have found that those traits did
move independently. In that case, the clean segregation observed in his other traits would have been
completely absent.
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a. calcium / glucagon b. selenium / ACTH c. chromium / oxytocin d. iodine / thyroid hormone
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