Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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Chapter 8, Problem 38CONQ
A woman who is heterozygous, Bb, has brown eyes; B (brown) is the dominant allele, and b (blue) is recessive. One of her eyes, however, has a patch of blue color. Give three different explanations for how this might have occurred.
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