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An example of multiple alleles is the ABO blood system in humans, where the gene for blood type has three alleles: A, B, and O. Each person inherits two of these alleles, resulting in four possible blood types: A, B, AB, and O.
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This phenomenon is known as multiple allelism, where there are more than two different variations of a gene (alleles) that can affect a single trait. In this case, individuals can inherit one of several possible alleles for the trait. Examples include the ABO blood group system in humans, where there are three alleles (IA, IB, i) that determine a person's blood type.
An example of a human trait caused by a single gene with multiple alleles is the ABO blood group system. This system is determined by the presence of different alleles at the ABO gene locus, specifically A, B, and O alleles. The combinations of these alleles result in four possible blood types: A, B, AB, and O, illustrating how multiple alleles can influence a single trait.
Multiple alleles are genes that have more than two alleles. An example of this would be blood types, with ABO as three separate alleles.Polygenic traits are traits whose phenotype rely on alleles from different genes. An example of this would be hair type, which relies on genes from different parts of chromosomes.The main difference is that multiple alleles are genes with 3 or more alleles; polygenic traits do not necessarily have more alleles, but they rely on on multiple genes.
The human ABO blood group system is a good example of multiple alleles. There are three alleles involved: IA, IB and IO. If a person inherits two IA alleles, or IA and IO, they will be group A. If they inherit two IB alleles, or IB and IO, they will be group B. If you inherit two IO alleles you will be group O.
Multiple alleles
multiple alleles
A trait controlled by four alleles is said to have multiple alleles.
Traits controlled by a gene with multiple alleles can vary in terms of expression or phenotype. For example, human blood type (A, B, AB, O) is controlled by a gene with multiple alleles. The different alleles can result in different phenotypes (A, B, AB, O) for the same trait.