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What is Pleiotropy?

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Which is connected with multiple phenotypes?

A

Epistasis

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Pleiotropy

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Polygenic inheritance

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Mutations

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Solution

The correct option is C Pleiotropy

The ability of a gene to have a multiple phenotypic effects is known as pleiotrophy and the gene is called Pleiotropic gene.
So, the correct option is ‘Pleiotrophy’.

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