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Which of the following establishes descent group membership exclusively through the male or the female line?
 
  a. bilineal descent
 b. matrilineal descent
  c. kinship
 d. unilineal descent

Question 2

Explain Mendel's principle of independent assortment.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

It is the principle which argues that the distribution of one pair of alleles into gametes does not the
influence the distribution of another pair. Genes controlling different traits are assorted separately.



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