Which of the Following Phenotypes Is an Example of Polygenic

question 22

Multiple Choice

Which of the following phenotypes is an example of polygenic inheritance?

• A) pink flowers in snapdragons
• B) the ABO blood group in humans
• C) white and purple flower color in peas
• D) skin pigmentation in humans

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Mean Time

The average value of time taken for an event to occur, commonly used in the context of mean time to failure or mean time between failures in reliability engineering.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, showing how much the values deviate from the mean.

Margin of Error

The range within which the true value is expected to lie with a certain level of confidence, often used in survey results to indicate the precision of estimates.

Grade Point Averages

A numeric calculation, weighted by credit hours, of the mean of the grades received over a defined period, scaled typically from 0.0 to 4.0.