Monday, July 27, 2009

Which of the follow is essentially the converse of pleiotropy?

a. multiple alleles


b. codominance


c. polygenic inheritance


d. blending inheritance


e. incomplete dominance

Which of the follow is essentially the converse of pleiotropy?
A multiple alleles, as a pleitropic gene is doing many ( multiple ) jobs with the one gene.
Reply:pleiotropy means-one gene affecting more than one character.therefore it's converse would be one character being influenced by more than one gene i:e polygenic inheritance.


so i think answer should be c


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