Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2017
Deaf parents with genotypes DDee and ddEE gave birth to a child with normal hearing. Specify the interaction of D and E genes:
Answer options
- Epistasis
- Complementary interaction
- Polymery
- Complete dominance
- Overdominance
Correct answer
Complementary interaction
Explanation
A pair of genes can often work together to create a specific phenotype, we call this complimentary interaction. With this type of interaction, we see two different phenotypes instead of the four seen in two genes one phenotype.
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