Q10. 1) What is meant by epistasis?

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1) What is meant by epistasis?
The natural colouration of wild mice is called agouti and is produced from banded
genes are involved, each with a dominant (A and B) and a recessive allele (a and b). The allele
A codes for the ability to produce hair pigment: AA and Aa mice have pigmented hairs but all aa
individuals are albinos. The Ballele codes for the ability to make hair with grduated colouration:
BB and Bb mice have graduated hair, bb mice have hair that is all one colour which is black.
hairs. Two
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Transcribed Image Text:Q10. 1) What is meant by epistasis? The natural colouration of wild mice is called agouti and is produced from banded genes are involved, each with a dominant (A and B) and a recessive allele (a and b). The allele A codes for the ability to produce hair pigment: AA and Aa mice have pigmented hairs but all aa individuals are albinos. The Ballele codes for the ability to make hair with grduated colouration: BB and Bb mice have graduated hair, bb mice have hair that is all one colour which is black. hairs. Two MacBook Pro
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