Question

Is hair colour polygenic inheritance?

Answer 1

Hair colour:

1. When numerous separate genes act in an additive or comparable manner on a single quantitative trait, this is known as polygenic inheritance.
2. These qualities are polygenic because they are influenced by several alleles at various loci.
3. Many features and phenotypic characteristics in plants and animals, including height, skin pigmentation, hair, and eye color, and milk and egg production, are inherited through a variety of alleles found in various loci.
4. Hair colour is a polygenic trait. Human skin colour and eye colour are also examples of polygenic characteristics.