Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 5U
An organism’s __________ is/are determined by its __________.
a. genotype;
b. phenotype; genotype
c. alleles; phenotype
d. genes; alleles
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