Usually means: Multiple genes influencing one trait.
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  1. polygene: Merriam-Webster
  2. polygene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polygene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polygene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polygene: Vocabulary.com
  6. polygene: Wordnik
  7. polygene: Wiktionary
  8. polygene: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. polygene: Dictionary.com
  10. Polygene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  12. polygene: FreeDictionary.org
  13. polygene: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. polygene: Encyclopedia

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  1. polygene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. polygene: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (genetics) A group of nonallelic genes that act together to produce phenotype variations

Similar:
pleiotrope, polygenotype, polyallelism, polygenicity, polygenesist, phenogroup, polygeny, polygenome, polyphenism, oligogene, more...

Types:
autosomal, sex-linked, multifactorial, environmental, more...

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Similar:
pleiotrope, polygenotype, polyallelism, polygenicity, polygenesist, phenogroup, polygeny, polygenome, polyphenism, oligogene, more...

Types:
autosomal, sex-linked, multifactorial, environmental, more...



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