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What is Pleiotropy?

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In garden pea, gene controlling starch synthesis related to all of the given phenomenon, except

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Pleiotropy

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Incomplete dominance

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Codominance

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Complete dominance

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Solution

The correct option is B Pleiotropy
Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences two or more unrelated phenotypic traits. So, pleitrophy cannot play a role in gene controlling starch synthesis.

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