Chapter 23, Problem 3CS

Summary Introduction

To determine:

Whether the given situation in the case study to be a common place event or one in a million event.

Introduction:

Polygenic inheritance is defined as the inheritance of characters that involves the cumulative action of multiple numbers of genes. This case of inheritance usually has two or more gene loci that are scattered throughout the genome and has additive effects for the formation of the phenotype. Statistical analysis is used to measure the number of genes involved in quantitative inheritance.