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Corrections and explanations

You are absolutely correct about both points. The first sentence on the top of page 5 of the Student Handout is "The many different skin colors that people inherit are caused by multiple alleles of multiple genes." The Teacher Notes suggest that, after question 16, you may want to ask your students whether the two alleles of the gene they have been analyzing could cause all the different skin colors that different people have. A discussion of this question would make a good transition to the next section.

Unfortunately, my word processor capitalizes words sometimes even when I don't want it to, and I didn't catch the erroneous capitalization of aa. I am working on a revision which corrects this error. I will post it later today.

Thank you for your comments,
Ingrid

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