Human skin color is an example of ____, while sickle-cell anemia is an example of ____
a. multiple alleles; epistasis
b. incomplete dominance; multiple alleles
c. polygenic inheritance; pleiotropy
d. pleiotropy; polygenic inheritance
e. incomplete dominance; pleiotropy
ANSWER: c
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