In ABO blood group inheritance, what is the relationship between the alleles IA and IB?   a. They are pleiotropic to each other. (pleiotropic means one gene also influences two or more unrelated phenotypes)   b. They are incompletely dominant to each other.   c. They are codominant to each other.   d. B alleles are dominant; A alleles are recessive.   e. A alleles are dominant; B alleles are recessive.

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In ABO blood group inheritance, what is the relationship between the alleles IA and IB?

  a.

They are pleiotropic to each other. (pleiotropic means one gene also influences two or more unrelated phenotypes)

  b.

They are incompletely dominant to each other.

  c.

They are codominant to each other.

  d.

B alleles are dominant; A alleles are recessive.

  e.

A alleles are dominant; B alleles are recessive.

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