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Q.The example for polymorphism is
(a) typhoid
(b) yellow fever
(c) sickle cell anaemia
(d) multiple sclerosis
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Sickle cell anaemia is the textbook example of balanced polymorphism in human populations.
Because heterozygous carriers of the sickle-cell allele have some resistance to malaria, both the normal and sickle-cell alleles are maintained in malaria-endemic populations at stable, non-trivial frequencies — a genetic polymorphism sustained by natural selection. Typhoid and yellow fever are infectious diseases, and multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune diso …
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