Various types of skin colour in humans is an example of :
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A
Pleiotropy
B
Incomplete dominance
C
Polygenic inheritance
D
Co-dominance
Correct Answer
Polygenic inheritance
Detailed Explanation
Some traits are generally controlled by three or more genes and are thus called as polygenic traits. Example - Human skin colour. The genotype with all the dominant alleles (AABBCC) will have the darkest skin colour and that with all the recessive alleles (aabbcc) will have the lightest skin colour.
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