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You discover a new alien race that you decide to call the PAMMARIANS.They are different from us in that they have three sexes,called Q,R,and S.All three sexes must fuse their gametes to form a new PAMMARIAN and you thought dating on the Earth was hard! .They have nuclear DNA and extrachromosomal organelles,similar to mitochondria,called MITOCHLORIANS,which have their own DNA.The R gender is like human females they donate the cytoplasm during the mating .Q and S do NOT donate cytoplasm during mating,like human males.Which of the following is TRUE?


A) In a mating,if only the S gender individual has a mitochlorian DNA mutation that causes a phenotype,the offspring WILL HAVE a mitochlorian mutant phenotype.
B) In a mating,if only the Q gender individual has a mitochlorian DNA mutation that causes a phenotype,the offspring WILL HAVE a mitochlorian mutant phenotype.
C) In a mating,if the S and Q genders have a mitochlorian DNA mutation,the offspring will be mutant as well.
D) In a mating,if only the Q gender individual has a mitochlorian DNA mutation that causes a phenotype,the offspring will have NO mitochlorian mutant phenotype.
E) In a mating,if only the R gender individual has a mitochlorian DNA mutation that causes a phenotype,the offspring will have NO mitochlorian mutant phenotype.

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