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Statement 1: Every individual organism contains two or more alleles for each trait.
Statement 2: Alleles segregate (separate) during meiosis such that each gamete gets only one of the alleles.

Which of the given statements is correct?

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Only 1
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Only 2
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Both 1 and 2
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Neither 1 nor 2
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The correct option is C Both 1 and 2
Alleles are different forms and hence different phenotypic expressions of one gene. For e.g., the gene which codes for the height of pea plant takes two forms: tall and dwarf. An individual contains a pair of alleles and the final phenotypic expression is a result of how both these alleles interact. These alleles segregate during meiosis and each gamete gets only one of the allele.

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