Biology: How Life Works
Biology: How Life Works
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Author: James Morris, Daniel Hartl, Andrew Knoll, Melissa Michael, Robert Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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The Genetic traits of humans are mostly classified by either complex or monogenic. Complex traits from a grouping of environmental factors such as choices of lifestyle about exercise and diet. Measurable phenotypes that rely on the cumulative actions of environment and many genes are called as a quantitative trait.

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