The fact that a person who suffers from sickle-cell anemia has symptoms like pneumonia, heart and kidney failure, fatigue, and paralysis is an example of ____.
A) pleiotropy
B) incomplete dominance
C) codominance
D) the effects of multiple alleles
E) epistasis

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Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences multiple phenotypic traits, which is the case with the symptoms of sickle-cell anemia being caused by a single gene mutation.

The Fact That a Person Who Suffers from Sickle-Cell Anemia