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The phenomenon in which genes have two or more forms of alleles that are present in a population is known as

A

Polygenic inheritance

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Multiple alleles

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Polyploidy

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Polygamy.

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Solution

The correct option is D Multiple alleles

The presence of more than one pair of allele or multiple forms of a single gene, present on the same loci are called multiple alleles
So, the correct option is ‘Multiple allele’

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