Multiple Choice
Thalidomide was a common treatment for morning sickness in the 1950s.Children born to mothers given this drug showed the phenotypes of a genetic disease known as phocomelia,which involves shortened limbs.This may represent
A) incomplete dominance.
B) genetic heterogeneity.
C) penetrance.
D) phenocopy.
E) incomplete penetrance.
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