PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
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Question
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One gene can influence many traits.
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Several genes can influence a single trait.
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The environment can have an influence on traits.
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Genes are the only influence on traits.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Your genes hold the basic instructions for your body to grow and function, but they are far from the only thing controlling your traits. Most traits are shaped both by a person’s genes and by environmental factors. Environmental factors include everything outside of DNA that affects your traits.
Detailed explanation-2: -Evidence suggests that these big five personality traits tend to be inherited to a certain degree. The five traits that make up personality and are influenced by genetics are openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, sometimes referred to by the acronym OCEAN.
Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics such as religion or language spoken have a heritability of zero because they are not under genetic control.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Of the following statements the one that is false is the notion that genes are not passed along during asexual reproduction.