Epistasis and Multiple Alleles Differ in That

question 8

Multiple Choice

Epistasis and multiple alleles differ in that

• A) epistasis is an interaction between two different chromosomes, and multiple alleles affect a single gene.
• B) epistasis is an interaction between two genes, and multiple alleles are variants of the same gene.
• C) epistasis affects males and multiple alleles occur in females.
• D) epistasis only occurs in genes that have multiple alleles.
• E) in epistasis one gene masks another, but one allele cannot mask the effect of another.

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