NEET Biology question

Occasionally, a single gene may express more than one effect. The phenomenon is called

(A)Multiple allelism
(B)Mosaicism
(C)PleiotropyCorrect
(D)Polygeny

Answer: (C)

Solution

When a single gene simultaneously influences multiple, distinct phenotypic traits, this is called pleiotropy. Multiple allelism (a) refers to a gene having more than two alleles in the population, mosaicism (b) refers to an

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