MCQ
Which one of the following is an example of polygenic inheritance?
  • Skin colour in humans
  • B
    Flower colour in Mirabilis jalapa
  • C
    Production of male honey bee
  • D
    Pod shape in garden pea

Answer

Correct option: A.
Skin colour in humans
a
(a) : Polygenic (or Quantitative) inheritance is that type of inheritance in which the complete expression of a trait is controlled by two or more genes in which a dominant allele of each gene contributes only a unit fraction of the trait and total phenotypic expression is the sum total of a additive or cumulative effect of all the dominant alleles of genes/polygenes. Human skin colour is an example of such polygenic inheritance which is controlled by three pairs of polygenes $A, B$ and $C$. Negro/black colour is due to presence of all the six dominant contributing alleles $AABBCC$. Very light colour or white colour is due to presence of all six recessive non­contributing alleles $aabbcc.$

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