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Humans vary in many ways from one another. Among many minor phenotypic differences are the following five independently assorting traits that (sort of) have a dominant and a recessive
If a couple with the genotypes Ff Ee Ww Hh Ddand Ff Ee Ww Hh Dd have children, what is the chance the children will inherit the following characteristics?
a. the same phenotype as the parents
b. four dominant traits and one recessive trait
c. all recessive traits
d. the genotype Ff EE Ww hh dd
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