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xxMikexx [17]
4 years ago
7

In familial hypercholesterolemia, individuals homozygous for the allele causing the disorder completely lack receptors on liver

cells that take up cholesterol from the blood stream. Heterozygotes have one-half the number of receptors while individuals homozygous for the normal allele are phenotypically normal. This is an example of:
Biology
1 answer:
JulsSmile [24]4 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The correct answer is - incomplete dominance.

Explanation:

A inheritance pattern that is characterized by pattern in which the one allele is not completely dominant over the its recessive variant of the allele and due to its incomplete dominance a third phenotype expressed over, termed as the incomplete dominance.

In the case of the familial hypercholesterlemia, it is genetic disorder in which the individual lacks the receptors on liver cells remove cholesterol from the blood. This condition occur in the homozygous allele case. In normal people have receptors normal while in heterozygous condition individual have half of the total receptors.

Thus, it is the case of incomplete dominance.

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