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Is blood type an example of pleiotropy?


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Pleiotropy:

  1. Pleiotropy is the phenomenon in which a single gene may produce more than one phenotypic effect.
  2. Phenylketonuria is an example of pleiotropy.
  3. Blood type is not an example of pleiotropy.

Blood type:

  1. Blood type is an example of multiple allelism and codominance.
  2. Multiple allelism is the phenomenon when more than two alternative forms of a gene occupy the same locus on a chromosome in a population.
  3. More than two alleles govern the same character in multiple allelism.
  4. Codominance is the phenomenon in which 2 alleles express themselves independently when present together in an organism.
  5. In codominance, offspring shows resemblance to both parents.

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