Question #6423561Single Choice

Biology

Question

In a particular insect population, a gene for body color has three alleles (B1, B2, B3). When these alleles combine, they produce a wide range of color phenotypes that cannot be easily predicted by the traditional two-factor model. This is an exception because:

Options

The presence of three alleles instead of two increases the complexity.

The alleles interact in a non-Mendelian way.

There are other genes involved that are not known.

The environment is affecting the expression of these alleles.

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