Concept explainers
To replace:
The underlined term with correct vocabulary terminthe given sentence
Introduction:
Genetic disorders result from inheritance of traits which are either dominant or recessive. The basic patterns of human inheritance follow
Answer to Problem 11A
A characteristic that has more than one pair of possible trait is said to be a polygenic trait.
Explanation of Solution
Some
Epistasis is an interaction produced due to one allele hiding the effects of another allele. The coat color in Labrador retrievers is due to interaction of two genes each with two alleles.
Hence the correct word in the given sentence is polygenic traitand not epistasis.
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