Human Anatomy & Physiology (9th Edition)

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Chapter 29 - Heredity - Review Questions - Page 1106: 2(4)

Answer

(d) polygene

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Polygene inheritance is determined by multiple gene pairs on throughout the chromosomes that work together to create the phenotype. This results in continuous variation in each generation of offspring as the number of alleles that can be combined to create the phenotype have increased from two to several.
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