The figure shows the pedigree for a family. Dark-shaded symbols represent individuals with one of the two major types of colon cancer. Numbers under the symbols are the individual's age at the time of diagnosis. Males are represented by squares, females by circles.
From this pedigree, this trait seems to be inherited ________.
A) as a result of epistasisas
B) an autosomal dominant
C) as an autosomal recessive
D) from mothers