Since any single diploid organism only has two alleles per gene in their nuclear genetic material, the gene pool for a population of that organism can only have two alleles occurring in it. Group of answer choices True False

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Taylor Stone

31 December, 13:23

Since any single diploid organism only has two alleles per gene in their nuclear genetic material, the gene pool for a population of that organism can only have two alleles occurring in it. Group of answer choices True False

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Claire Arellano · Answer 1

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A diploid organism can have only two alleles for a particular gene. However, a gene may have more than two alleles. The gene for the ABO blood type has three alleles. The gene pool of a population can have more than two alleles for a gene since different organisms may have various combinations of the multiple alleles of a gene. For example, some individuals of a human population may have I^A and I^B alleles while others may have I^A and "i" alleles in their genomes. This population would have three alleles for the ABO gene.