NEET Solved Paper 2014 Question 33

Question: Fruit colour in squash is an example of [AIPMT 2014]

Options:

A) recessive epistasis

B) dominant epistasis

C) complementary genes

D) inhibitory genes

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Answer:

Correct Answer: B

Solution:

  • Fruit colour is squash is an example of eominant cpistasis in which the dominant gene (epistatic gene) masks be hide the effect of other gene (recessive hypostic gene). Squash fruit appear white due to the epistatic effect of ‘W? allele (white colour) over ‘G’ allele (green colour).