What Is the Key to the Recognition of a Trait

question 37

Multiple Choice

What is the key to the recognition of a trait whose expression is determined by the effects of two or more genes (polygenic inheritance) ?

• A) A mating between a homozygous and a heterozygous individual produces more than the expected number of offspring expressing the dominant trait.
• B) All of the alleles of the gene for that trait are equally expressed.
• C) Pleiotropy occurs.
• D) The trait varies along a continuum in the population.

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