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What Is Meant by Variable Expressivity

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What is meant by variable expressivity?


A) When an allele is sometimes dominant and sometimes recessive
B) When penetrance is 100%
C) When members of a group of true-breeding wild-type individuals sometimes exhibit the phenotype of a recessive gene
D) When a group of affected individuals do not all have exactly the same mutant phenotype

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