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#Question id: 15190


The recessive mutant allele that causes cystic fibrosis is much more frequent in Caucasians population than in other world populations. Some scientists believe heterozygotes must have had a survival advantage during plagues such as cholera that occasionally swept through this population. What concept does this illustrate?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. Multiple alleles 
  2. overdominance
  3. Environmental influence
  4. Epistasis