What Is the Additive Gene Effect?

What Is the Additive Gene Effect? When people think about the genetics of a trait, they usually think about the relationships between alleles. However, the relationship between separate genes is also important in determining physical features. Multiple genes interact to determine these traits, which is why there is such diversity. When more than one gene determines a trait, the outcome is determined by the interactions of all the genes; this is called a polygenic trait. We just examined how the interactions of additive alleles determine skin color. However, genes can have an additive effect as well. When you have genes that code for the same trait and have an equal outcome on the phenotype, it is called the _additive gene effect. The genes that determine how much melanin a person has in their skin are good examples of the additive gene effect. #ProbabilityProblem #statistics #genetics #additiveAlleles #punnettSquares #Codominance #epistasis #incompleteDominance #polygenic #traits #genes #dominant #recessive #nonmendelian #Mendel #science #biology #height #Allele #DNA #geneControl #mendelian #school #teachers #students #crossTest #flower #PhenotypicTrait #phenotype #genotype #lesson #tutorial #education #teacher #Lessons #learn #student #highSchoolBiology #nonmendelianTraits #NikolaysGeneticsLessons #trait #additiveTrait