Multiple choice

In an experiment, it was discovered that there was a single human gene responsible for all of the various forms of physical destruction associated with diabetes, it would be referred as

  1. a modifying gene

  2. pleiotropy

  3. a regulator gene

  4. hox gene

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Pleiotropy is a genetic inheritance pattern in which a single gene causes or affects an entire series of traits.