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Agriculture · Q384

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 384

Q384

The unblended expression of two different alleles for a trait in the phenotype of heterozygous individual is called as

A.
Incomplete dominance
B.
Complete dominance
C.
Over dominance
D.
Co-dominance
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
The unblended expression of two different alleles for a trait in the phenotype of a heterozygous individual is called Co-dominance.
Co-dominance, refers to a type of inheritance in which two versions (alleles) of the same gene are expressed separately to yield different traits in an individual.
Gregor Mendel discovered the phenomenon of co-dominance while studying polygenetic traits and their inheritance.