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What is the deffinition of polygenic inheritence?

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What is Polygenic Inheritence?

Polygenic inheritance is the phenotypic expression of a trait involving the interaction of many genes.


How inheritance by multiple alleles and polygenic inheritence are similar?

They are both controlled by more than 2 alleles


What is trait called when it is controlled by more than one gene?

Polygenic Traits


What type two or more genes control a trait?

Polygenic trait


How genes affect characteristics?

It is a polygenic character


Is breast cancer codominant or polygenic?

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Traits controlled by two or more genes are called what?

Polygenic Traits.


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.


If your father-in-law leaves an inheritence to your husband are you intitled to some?

According to property laws, inheritence is considered separate property which is owned by the heir. A spouse is not entitled to inheritence.


How is pleiotropy different from polygenic inheritance?

Differencebetween polygenic and pleiotropic traits


When both alleles contribute to the phenotype it is called?

PleiotropyPleiotropy occurs when one gene influences multiple, seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits, an example being phenylketonuria, which is a human disease that affects multiple systems but is caused by one gene defect.


What do you mean by inheritence?

Inheritence is somethingt that you are given. Like a gift in a way. ( Read Genesis 26 and 27)