some individuals of blood group A may inherit the genes for blond hair while other individual with blood group A may inherit the gene for brown hair.Explain this difference.

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Solution

The blood group and hair color are not related to each other. So, people having blood group A may have hairs of either color and similarly people of same hair colour may have different blood groups.

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