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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
CBSEENBI12002304

Fruit colour in squash is an example  of 

  • recessive epistasis

  • dominant epistasis

  • complementary genes

  • inhibitory genes

Solution

B.

dominant epistasis

Fruit colour is squash is an example of eominant cpistasis in which the dominant gene(epistatic gene) masks be to hide the effect of another gene (recessive hypostic gene). Squash fruit appear white due to the epistatic effect of 'W' allele (white colour) over 'G' allele (green colour)