Principles of Inheritance and Variation Question 97

97. A gene pair hides the effect of another. The phenomenon is

(a) epistasis

(b) dominance

(c) mutation

(d) none of the above

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Answer : a

Hints & Solution

(a) Epistasis is the phenomenon of masking or supressing the phenotypic impression of a gene pair by a non allelic gene pair which expresses its own effect.