what is polygenic inheritance?
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A polygene is a member of a group of non-epistatic genes that interact additively to influence a phenotypic trait, thus contributing to multiple-gene inheritance, a type of non-Mendelian inheritance, as opposed to single-gene inheritance, which is the core notion of Mendelian inheritance.
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- Polygenic inheritance occurs when one characteristic is controlled by two or more genes.
- Often the genes are large in quantity but small in effect. Examples of human polygenic inheritance are height, skin color, eye color and weight.
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