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Individuals Who Carry Two Copies of the Sickle Allele of a Gene

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Individuals who carry two copies of the sickle allele of a gene for hemoglobin suffer from a usually fatal anemia.However, individuals who carry one sickle allele have a greater resistance to malaria.Such individuals demonstrate the principle of _______, which accounts for the maintenance of both the normal and the sickle alleles.

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