Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology Plus Mastering Biology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (11th Edition)
Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology Plus Mastering Biology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133910605
Author: Gerald Audesirk, Teresa Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers
Publisher: PEARSON
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The reason why some genetic disorders might be dominant, incompletely dominant, or recessive, and give examples of each.

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The genetic disorder causes a disease in an individual due to a mutation in a sequence of the genome. It can also be caused due to inversion of genes, deletion, translocation or aneuploidy, nullisomy, trisomy or polysomy of the chromosomes.

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