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What Is Polygenic Inheritance?
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Which Type of Non Mendelian Inheritance Does Human Eye Color Exemplify?
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Polygenic inheritance.
Human eye colour is an example of
polygenic inheritance.
Polygenic inheritance refers to the inheritance of a trait governed by more than one genes.
Generally, three or more genes govern the inheritance of polygenic traits.
Three examples of polygenic traits in humans are height, skin colour and eye colour.
These traits are governed by multiple genes.
Multiple independent genes have an additive or similar effect on a single quantitative trait.
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