Question

Is sickle cell anaemia polygenic inheritance?

Answer 1

Sickle cell anaemia:

1. Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited blood disease wherein flexible red blood cells turn into stiff sickle cells.
2. Polygenic inheritance refers to the inheritance in which a particular trait is controlled by more than one gene.
3. In sickle cell anaemia, two abnormal copies of the beta-haemoglobin gene are found on chromosome 11.
4. It is polygenic inheritance.