Which of the following best describes polygenetic inheritance?
a. An individual receives multiple alleles from more than two parents.
b. Characteristics resulting from polygenetic inheritance exhibit a wide variation in genotypic expression.
c. Characteristics resulting from polygenetic inheritance exhibit a wide variation in phenotypic expression.
d. Characteristics most commonly result in mutation.
Question 2
The use of tree rings to assign chronometric dates is called:
a. palynology.
b. potassium argon.
c. dendrochronology.
d. stratigraphy.
e. matrix analysis.
Pedigree Analysis and Inheritance
Patterns of Inheritance for Eye Color
A pedigree showing the inheritance of a trait through several generations of a family.
The Effect of Multiple Contributing Genes on Phenotypic Variation
X-linked recessive inheritance of red-green color blindness in a family
Obese individual with stretch marks (striae)