Epistasis and multiple alleles differ in that

A) epistasis is an interaction between two genes, and multiple alleles are variants of the same gene.

B) epistasis affects males and multiple alleles occur in females.

C) epistasis only occurs in genes that have multiple alleles.

D) in epistasis one gene masks another, but one allele cannot mask the effect of another.


A) epistasis is an interaction between two genes, and multiple alleles are variants of the same gene.

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