Anatomy & Physiology
1st Edition
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Author: Kelly A. Young, James A. Wise, Peter DeSaix, Dean H. Kruse, Brandon Poe, Eddie Johnson, Jody E. Johnson, Oksana Korol, J. Gordon Betts, Mark Womble
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Chapter 5, Problem 4ILQ
This ABC video follows the story of a pair of fraternal African-American twins, one of whom is albino.Watch this video (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/albino) to learn about the challenges these children and their family face. Which ethnicities do you think are exempt from the possibility of albinism?
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