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Question
if an individual allele has more than one effect on the phenotype, this is called
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polygenic inheritance.
epistasis.
blending inheritance.
multiple alleles.
pleiotropy.
Brief Explanations
The question describes a single allele affecting multiple phenotypes, which is the definition of pleiotropy. Polygenic inheritance involves multiple genes affecting one trait; epistasis is gene interaction; blending inheritance is outdated (traits mix); multiple alleles are multiple variants of a gene.
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