Imagine That Beak Color in a Finch Species Is Controlled

question 1

Multiple Choice

Imagine that beak color in a finch species is controlled by a single gene.You mate a finch homozygous for orange (pigmented) beak with a finch homozygous for ivory (unpigmented) beak and get numerous offspring,all of which have a pale,ivory- orange beak.This pattern of color expression is most likely to be an example of

• A)pleiotropy.
• B)codominance.
• C)incomplete dominance.
• D)polygenic inheritance.

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