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How is the skin colour in man inherited? Is it different from inheritance of eye colour? Explain.
How is the skin colour in man inherited?
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Solution
Human skin colour is polygenic: the additive effects of several genes influence melanin production, producing continuous variation. In the simple Mendelian model used for eye colour in basic genetics, a single gene with dominant and recessive alleles gives distinct phenotypes; real human eye colour is more complex and involves multiple genes.
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