Quantitative characters vary in a population along a continuum. how do such characters differ from the characters investigated by mendel in his experiments on peas?

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Kyan Cook

21 May, 12:25

Quantitative characters vary in a population along a continuum. how do such characters differ from the characters investigated by mendel in his experiments on peas?

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Aaron Cherry · Answer 1

Quantitative characters are due to polygenic inheritance, the additive effects of two or more genes on a single phenotypic character. A single gene affected all but one of the pea characters studied by Mendel.