10. What is polygenic
inheritance? How does it
work?

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Polygenic inheritance, also known
quantitative inheritance, is the
interaction in which a traitis
conditioned by several genes
having alleles that or may not
contribute increase the phenotype
intensity.The may be
contributing or and
there is no among them.
Polygenic inheritance the type of
inheritance, example, of skin color
of stature in humans.

a given species of in
which the length the individual is
conditioned polygenic inheritance of
three , for the genotype having
noncontributing alleles (aabbcc) a
phenotype, for example, 30 ,
would emerge. Considering also for
each contributing allele 5 cm increase
in length of the animalis , so
in the genotype only contributing
alleles (AABBCC) animal would
present the phenotype (30 cm)
plus cm more added by
contributing allele, i.e., its would
be 60 cm. the case of triple
, for example, the length
the animal would be cm. That is
the polygenic inheritance works.