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irga5000 [103]
3 years ago
6

What information would a scientist need to discover whether a disorder had a genetic cause, an environmental cause, or a combina

tion of the two?
Biology
1 answer:
Aleks [24]3 years ago
6 0
He needs to know if the disorder occurs in the members of family (it would suggest genetic cause of a disease) or in housemates/colleagues from work (it would suggest environmental cause if sick people share the environment)
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