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Title: Which is an advantage to an organism having multiple copies of alleles?
Post by: darwin22 on May 27, 2012
Which is an advantage to an organism having multiple copies of alleles?

A.       Diseased alleles are prevented from spreading through populations.

B.       Decreased rates of genomic determinism are observed in the organism.

C.       Organisms exhibit parthenogenesis when in reproductive isolation.

D.       The state of polymorphism is prevented in organisms.

E.       Organisms exhibit increased adaptability to changing environmental conditions.


Title: Which is an advantage to an organism having multiple copies of alleles?
Post by: das1130 on May 27, 2012
E


Title: Which is an advantage to an organism having multiple copies of alleles?
Post by: dashylia on May 27, 2012
The organism can have deleterious alleles without having the deleterious trait because the expression of the good allele can mask a recessive deleterious allele.

I don't see that up there.