NEET Biology question
Which of the following statements are false? I. Specific mutations are acquired because they are needed; II. Recessive alleles follow different laws of inheritance than dominant alleles do; III. An offspring receives one copy of each gene from each parent, for a total of two copies; IV. Gametes always carry only the dominant allele of a gene pair.
Solution
Statement I is false because mutations arise as random events, not because an organism "needs" them (a Lamarckian misconception). Statement II is false because the same fundamental laws of segregation and independent assortment govern both recessive and dominant alleles — dominance only affects phenotypic expression,
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