Environmental Effects on Phenotype

AP Biology· difficulty 3/5

"Incomplete penetrance" describes a situation where

  • A

    An individual's phenotype is determined entirely by environment, not genotype

  • B

    Every individual with a particular genotype always shows the expected phenotype

  • C

    Some individuals with a particular genotype do not show the expected phenotype

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  • D

    Mutations arise at unusually high frequency at a particular gene locus

Explanation

Some genotypes don't always produce the expected phenotype due to environmental modifiers, modifier genes, or chance.

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