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Cystic fibrosis is a very serious genetic disorder that occurs in homozygotes for a recessive allele. Although the disease is extremely serious, this recessive allele appears with surprisingly high frequency in Caucasian populations. It has been suggested that siblings of individuals with cystic fibrosis may have some protection from certain bacterial infections of the gut. If this is true, then the recessive allele is maintained at high frequency by
- a. the founder effect.
- b. new mutations.
- c. heterozygote advantage.
- d. frequency-dependent selection.
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