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Label: eye-color

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Related Labels: genetics, genes, charactertistics, drosophila, fruit-fly, hairy-wing

Characteristics are controlled not in a single place but by multiple genes
However it gradually emerged that most characters, even simple ones, are regulated by many genes: for instance, fourteen genes affect eye color in Drosophila. (Not only that. The mutation which suppresses 'purple eye' enhances 'hairy wing,' for instance. The mechanism is not understood ...
Other labels: hairy-wing, fruit-fly, drosophila, genes, charactertistics, genetics
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