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Question
Mention one significant difference between Epistasis and dominance
Solution
| Epistasis | Dominance |
| Epistasis is intergenetic suppression where gene present on one gene locus suppresses the expression of the gene present on some other locus on the same or other chromosomes |
When a heterozygote possesses two contrasting alleles, but only one can express, itself, while the other remains hidden, the gene which is expressed is dominant and this is called dominance |
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