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What is polygenic inheritance

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Polygenic Inheritance is where one trait (for example, eye color) is determined by multiple genes (two or more).

This typically happens when there is a wide variety of this trait (e.g. height, eye color, hair color, skin color, etc.).

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Polygenetic Inheritance is where many genes can determine one trait, hence the prefix poly.
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