Question 3 Familial hypercholesterolemia is a disorder that leads to high level

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Question 3 Familial hypercholesterolemia is a disorder that leads to high level of blood cholesterol. Individuals homozygous for the loss of function allele completely lack receptors on liver cells that clear up cholesterol from the blood stream. Heterozygotes have 50% of the receptors and therefore are mildly hypercholesterolemic. Individuals homozygous for the normal allele are phenotypically normal. This is an example of: Not yet answered Points out of 1.00 Flag question Select one: Overdominance O Complete dominance Incomplete dominance Epistasis Codominance

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Answer: Incomplete dominance

The incomplete dominance is the inheritance where both alleles expressed equally in heterozygotes offspring, whose phenotype appears as a "blended intermediate" or an apparent blend of the phenotypes of the two homozygous parents.

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