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Can anyone please explain me what is quantitative inheritance
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Medical Definition of quantitative inheritance : genetic inheritance of a character (as human skin color) controlled by polygenes with each allelic pair of genes at a given locus having a specific quantitative effect — compare blending inheritance, mendelian inheritance. Example of quantitative inheritance is (A) Colour of skin (B) Colourblindness (C) Kinefelter's syndrome (D) Alkaptonuria. A quantitative inheritance is defined as the function of polygenes. The skin colour is determined by more than one gene. Hence, the colour of the skin shows polygenic inheritance. quantitative inheritance The inheritance of a character (known as a quantitative character or quantitative trait) that depends upon the cumulative action of many genes, each of which produces only a small effect.