multifactorial
multifactorial (polygenic) In genetics, a hypothesis to explain quantitative variation by assuming the interaction of a great number of genes (polygenes), each with a small additive effect on the character.
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polygene , polygene One of a group of genes that together control a continuously variable character such as height or weight. Individually each gene has very li… Epistasis , Epistasis, first defined by the English geneticist William Bateson in 1907, is the masking of the expression of a gene at one position in a chromosom… A.h. Sturtevant , Sturtevant, Alfred Henry
STURTEVANT, ALFRED HENRY
genetics.
Sturtevant was the youngest of six children of Alfred Henry Sturtevant and Harriet Evelyn… Genetics , genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the trans… Hermann Muller , Muller, Hermann
Muller, Hermann
Geneticist 1890-1967
Hermann Joseph Muller was one of the founding members of the "fly lab" that was initiated by Tho… Quantitative Genetics , Quantitative traits are those that vary continuously. This is in contrast to qualitative traits, in which the phenotype is discrete and can take on o…
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