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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
CBSEENBI12047466

Marfan syndrome, a dominant single gene defect is characterised by lens dislocation, long limbs, spindly fingers, caved in chest and weakened aorta. This is an example of

  • Complete dominance

  • Epistasis

  • Pleiotropy

  • Codominance

Solution

C.

Pleiotropy

Pleiotropy is the ability of a gene to have multiple phenotypic effects as it influence multiple characters simultaneously. It is not essential that all the traits are equally influenced.