The General Term for Inadequate Oxygen Delivery to Body Tissues

question 40

True/False

The general term for inadequate oxygen delivery to body tissues regardless of the cause is called hypoxia.

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Definitions:

Epistasis

An interaction between genes in which the effect of one gene is modified or completely masked by another gene.

Polygenic Inheritance

Inheritance in which several independently assorting or loosely linked nonallelic genes modify the intensity of a trait or contribute to the phenotype in additive fashion.

Incomplete Dominance

a genetic phenomenon where the phenotype of a heterozygote is intermediate between the phenotypes of the two homozygotes.

True Breeding

Refers to organisms that produce offspring of the same variety when they self-pollinate or mate with other true-breeding organisms of the same traits.