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Choose the best explanation for the mechanism of inheritance, keeping in mind Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment.

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A characteristic is inherited in combination with others

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The presence of one characteristic(e.g. colour) modifies the inheritance of the other (e.g shape)

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A characteristic (say shape) is inherited independent of the influence of others (e.g. colour)

D

Rare combinations of characters are always due to mutations, which are inherited by the progency

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  9. Identify the pair that does not match.

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  10. Identify the correctly matched pair.

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  12. Indentify the correct statement.

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  13. Which of the following statements is wrong?

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