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Polygenic means that multiple genes created the same trait. The skin color gene is polygenic because multiple genes will give you the same trait.
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What are some polygenic traits in humans?
Skin color, height, weight
What is a penguins traits?
their characteristics
What are ways in which natural selection operates on ploygenic traits?
Polygenic? Natural selection usually acts on the phenotype of polygenic traits as they are suites of genes acting in concert to form a trait. If you had a trait, such as height, in two variant brothers then the aggregate would need to be selected for as the genes working in concert, but not equally well, would render different heights in the brothers which would be then visible to natural selection.
How are characteristics passed?
characteristics are like traits. traits are within the gene in a cell. And a gene is among the DNA strands in a chromosome. And a chromosome is in the nucleus. and the nucleus is in the cell. And cells are in organisms.
What characteristics are controlled by genes?
Characteristics (traits) such as height, foot size, and hand span are controlled by the genes you have.
Traits that are shaped by many genes are called what?
Traits that are produced by the interaction of several genes are called polygenic traits. Examples of polygenic traits are height and skin color.
What is trait called when it is controlled by more than one gene?
Polygenic Traits
Traits controlled by two or more genes are called what?
Polygenic Traits.
How genes affect characteristics?
It is a polygenic character
How is pleiotropy different from polygenic inheritance?
Differencebetween polygenic and pleiotropic traits
Trait controlled by two or more genes?
Polygenic Traits
What are Mendelian traits?
Traits that are controlled a multiple gene loci. Polygenic traits.
Two ways multiple alleles and polygenic traits differ?
Multiple alleles are "the existence of more than two alleles (versions of the gene) for a genetic traits. Polygenic traits are "[characteristics of organisms that are] influenced by several genes." So multiple alleles are more than two alleles for one trait, and polygenic traits are one trait that is influenced by multiple genes. This information came from my biology textbook, "Biology: Principles and Explorations" by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
How are polygenic traits controlled?
by two or more
What is the term that refers to the determination of a given trait that is a result of the interaction of many genes?
"Polygenic" is the term that refers to the determination of a given trait that is a result of the interaction of many genes. Traits such as height, skin, color are polygenic. Polygenic traits do not show the phenotypic ration that charecterizes Mendelian Inheritance eventhough the trait is inherited as stated by Gregor Mendel. Many Polygenic traits are often influenced by the environmental factors.
What ar human traits controlled by?
polygenic inheritance
What are traits due in part to multiple loci?
POLYGENIC
