- **Monogenic inheritance**
- Deals with qualitative traits
- Controlled by single pair of contrasting genes
- Phenotype shows discontinuous variation
- No intermediate phenotypes are produced
- **Polygenic inheritance**
- Deals with quantitative traits
- Controlled by more than one pair of non-allelic genes
- Phenotype shows continuous variation
- Intermediate phenotypes are produced
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