NEET Biology question

When a single gene influences more than one trait, it is called

(A)Pseudodominance
(B)PleiotropyCorrect
(C)Epistasis
(D)None of these

Answer: (B)

Solution

Pleiotropy is the phenomenon in which a single gene affects multiple, often seemingly unrelated, phenotypic traits simultaneously. Pseudodominance (a) refers to the unexpected expression of a recessive allele due to the deletion of

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