Multiple choice

As a consequence of accidental conception, which among the following takes place?

  1. Almost all the progenies will have a unique combination of alleles.

  2. Most of the offsprings in the same family have the same combination of alleles.

  3. There will be no randomness in the inheritance of alleles in the offsprings from parents.

  4. Almost all the progenies will have a identical combination of alleles.
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Explanation

Siblings usually share many genetic traits, but they do not have identical sets of alleles unless they are monozygotic (i.e. identical) twins.

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