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A mouse carrying two alleles of insulin-like growth factor II (IgF2) is normal in size,whereas a mouse that carries two mutant alleles lacking the growth factor is dwarf. The size of a heterozygous mouse carrying one normal and one mutant allele depends on the parental origin of the wild type allele. Such pattern of inheritance is known as:

A

Sex-linked inheritance

B

Genomic imprinting

C

Gene-environment interaction

D

Cytoplasm inheritance

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