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Skin color and mental disorders that are determined by an interaction of many genes are examples of _____________.

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Polygenetic traits

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Polygene are any group of nonallelic genes whose individual effect on a phenotype is too small to observe , however together they can determine a phenotypic trait.

Polygenetic traits are those traits controlled by multiple genes or polygenes

For example, skin color is determined by the number of dark alleles a person has and it takes more than three genes to determine it.

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