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Principles of Inheritance and Variation — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation2 Marks
Question
Even if character shows multiple allelism an individual will have only two alleles for that character, why?
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Answer

Diploid individual has only two sets of homologous chromosomes hence only two alleles of a gene can be present on homologous pair of chromosome.

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