Polygenic Inheritance Pleiotropy
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Which one of the following is an example of polygenic inheritance?
1. Flower colour in Mirabilis jalapa
2. Production of male honey bee
3. Pod shape in garden pea
4. Skin colour in humans
Inheritance of skin colour in humans is an example of:
| 1. | chromosomal aberration |
| 2. | point mutation |
| 3. | polygenic inheritance |
| 4. | codominance |
1. transformation
2. splicing
3. metamorphosis
4. heterosis
A pleiotropic gene:
| 1. | Is expressed only in primitive plants |
| 2. | Is a gene that evolved during Pliocene |
| 3. | Controls a trait only in combination with another gene |
| 4. | Controls multiple traits in an individual |
The best example of pleiotropy is:
| 1. | Skin color | 2. | Phenylketonuria |
| 3. | Colour Blindness | 4. | ABO Blood group |
| 1. | more than two genes affecting a single character. |
| 2. | presence of several alleles of a single gene controlling a single crossover. |
| 3. | presence of two alleles, each of the two genes controlling a single trait. |
| 4. | a single gene affecting multiple phenotypic expressions. |
What is the pattern of inheritance for polygenic traits?
| 1. | Autosomal dominant pattern |
| 2. | X-linked recessive inheritance pattern |
| 3. | Mendelian inheritance pattern |
| 4. | Non-Mendelian inheritance pattern |
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