3. What is pleiotropy?

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Pleiotropy (or pliotropy) is
phenomenon in which a gene
conditions several different
traits.

Some phenotypical traits be
sensitive to pleiotropic (for
example, inhibition) of genes,
even when conditioned a pair of
alleles simple dominance. In these
a mixture of pleiotropy gene
interaction is characterized.