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In individual heterozygous for two alleles (AaBb) produces two million sperms. How many of the sperms will have both recessive alleles

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0.5 million

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1 million

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2 million

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0.25 million

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The correct option is A 0.5 million
25% of the sperms will have both recessive alleles.

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