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Question

Which of the following is an example of polygenic traits?

  1. Human height
  2. Flower color in peas
  3. Attached earlobes
  4. Widows peak

hintHint:

The Human height and flower color in peas are two traits that are influenced by two or more genes, such as height or skin tone, and are referred to as polygenic traits.

The correct answer is: Human height


    • Three genes with six alleles each govern the polygenic trait of human height. Because of this, a tall person would have all the dominant alleles, whereas a small person would have the majority of the recessive alleles.
    • While the color of the pea flower is determined by two separate genes, the inheritance of human skin color is an example of polygenic inheritance or multi-gene inheritance. Contrasting characteristics of pea plants include bloom color, stem height, seed form, etc.
    • Two genes- a dominant and recessive gene for violet and a recessive gene for white control the inheritance pattern in the garden pea (Pisum sativum) flower.
    • Garden pea flower color inheritance is a good example of true inheritance since it results in dominant violet-colored blooms in one generation while expressing both dominant and recessive features in the next.
    • Human skin color is an example of polygenic inheritance, in which the inheritance pattern of skin color is controlled by three or more genes. Characters with polygenic inheritance take on the shape of a bell curve.

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