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Choose the best definition of allele.Question options:A) The process of fertilizing a plant with pollen from another plantB) An organism that's purebred for a given traitC) One of several possible versions of a gene, which each produce a different phenotypeD) A set of genes that are located on the same chromosome and so are tightly linked

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An allele is one, of each of the versions of a gene. The right answer is B.

An individual inherits the alleles of each gene from each parent, so it could be homozygote, or heterozygote having different versions of the same gene

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