Coat Color in Mice Involves the Effects of Multiple Gene

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Multiple Choice

Coat color in mice involves the effects of multiple gene interactions.If a mouse has two recessive alleles (aa) for coat color, it will always be albino no matter what the genotype of other genes involved in coat color.This is an example of

• A) pleiotropy.
• B) incomplete dominance.
• C) codominance.
• D) heterosis.
• E) epistasis.

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