Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Why don’t genetic markers on the Y chromosome undergo recombination? Why is this lack of recombination a necessity for these markers to be used in tracing migrations?
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Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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