Which factor allows inheritance patterns for a specific trait or health problem to be traced from one family generation to another?
A)Pleiotropy
B)Allele segregation
C)Regression to the mean
D)Gene-environment interaction

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Monogenic traits can be inherited from remote ancestors as well as more directly from our parents. Expression of monogenic traits is determined by the input of the two alleles (one from each parent) of a single gene. Because alleles segregate, meaning that normally only one allele of a pair is transmitted from each parent to any child, a single gene remains distinct and does not combine with alleles from other genes, inheritance patterns from one family generation to another can be traced.

Which Factor Allows Inheritance Patterns for a Specific Trait or Health