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Choose the statement that correctly describes genomic imprinting?

  1. gender of parent you inherit an allele from affects trait

  2. greater in females because larger contribution of cytoplasm

  3. may explain Duchenne's muscular dystrophy

  4. explains sex-linked inheritance
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Explanation

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon where the expression of a gene depends on whether it was inherited from the mother or the father.

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