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Inheritance of skin colour in humans is an example of:

  1. A
    chromosomal aberration
  2. B
    point mutation
  3. C
    polygenic inheritance
  4. D
    codominance

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Human skin color is controlled by multiple independent genes (at least three), which have an additive effect. This type of inheritance, where multiple genes influence a single trait, is called polygenic inheritance.

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Inheritance of skin colour in humans is an example of:
A
chromosomal aberration
B
point mutation
C
polygenic inheritance
D
codominance

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