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Human height is governed by polygenic inheritance, which means that more than one gene determines a person's height.

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Q: Why is human height an expection to mendels principles of heredity?
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Why is a human height an exception to Mendel's principles of heredity?

It's not. It's just that diet can modify height as much as genes.


Why is height an exception to Mendel's principles of heredity?

although its genetic its traits arent the offspring of the parent generation.


Why is human height an exception of Mendel's principles of heredity?

although its genetic its traits arent the offspring of the parent generation.


Why is human height an exception to Mendel's principles heredity?

although its genetic its traits arent the offspring of the parent generation.


Why is human height an exception to Mendel principles of heredity?

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How do you use a sentence with heredity?

Heredity is the passing of genetic information from parents to offspring. An example sentence using heredity could be: "Eye color, height, and certain diseases can be influenced by heredity and are inherited from our parents."


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What are eye color height weight hair and skin color examples of?

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In Mendels cross for stem height what contrasting traits did the P plants in the P generation exhibit?

small heights and a dirty green color


How is human height an exception to Mendel's principles of heredity?

There are many traits that do not follow Mendel experiments. He was lucky in that the traits he looked at were very simple and straight forward. As far as human height, there are 2 million common genetic variants and there are 697 gene variants in 424 gene regions as related to height which have been identified. Other studies show 199 genetic variants residing in 180 genome regions.


what besides flower color are three characteristics of pea plants that Mendel studied?

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How does food not make you taller?

1) It doesn't make you taller than the maximum which your DNA (heredity) calls for. 2) It doesn't make you taller after a certain age, when you've stopped growing in height.