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Topic: Deviations: incomplete dominance, co-dominance, multiple alleles, blood groups, pleiotropy, polygenic inheritance· Genetics and Evolution

The phenomenon of pleiotropism refers to

1. more than two genes affecting a single character.

2. presence of several alleles of a single gene controlling a single crossover.

3. presence of two alleles, each of the two genes controlling a single trait.

4. a single gene affecting multiple phenotypic expression.

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Answer: 4. a single gene affecting multiple phenotypic expression.

Key idea: Pleiotropy is the effect of a single gene on multiple phenotypic traits.

A well-known example is the gene for phenylketonuria, or the starch synthesis gene in pea affecting seed shape and other features. Option 1 describes polygenic inheritance.

Doubtly AI · 30 Oct 2026 AI-generated · not yet verified Report
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