Given what we know about the relationship between genes, chromosomes, and DNA, why can more than...

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Given what we know about the relationship between genes,chromosomes, and DNA, why can more than one allele of a gene bepresent in an indívidual?

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Because recessive alleles need to be in the presence of anotherrecessive to show their phenotype

This cannot happen; there can be many alleles for a gene, butmost organisms will carry only one of them

Most eukaryotic organisms have at least 2 sets of homologouschromosomes

Due to blending inheritance, organisms will combine alleles thatthey inherit from their parents

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Eukaryotic organisms have two sets of homologous chromosomes These are known as diploid organism They inherit one set of homologous chromosomes from each parent that increases the diversity Each gene has two    See Answer
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