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Which one of the following pairs of features is a good example of polygenic inheritance?
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23/09/2020 6:40 pm
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Which one of the following pairs of features is a good example of polygenic inheritance?
(a) Human height and skin colour.
(b) ABO blood group in humans and flower colour of Mirabilis jalapa.
(c) Hair pigment of mouse and tonque rolling in humans.
(d) Human eye colour and sickle cell anaemia.
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23/09/2020 6:41 pm

(a) Human height and skin colour.
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Polygenic inheritance is the trait under the control of more than one pair of genes, e.g. skin colour (trigenic) and human height.
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