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Fruit colour in squash in an example of:
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- Recessive epistasis
- Dominant epistasis
- Complementary genes
- Inhibitory genes
Correct Option: B
Epistasis is the phenomenon of suppression of phenotypic expression of gene by a nonallelic gene which shows its own effect. A dominant epistatic allele suppresses the expression of a nonallelic gene whether the latter is dominant or recessive. For example, fruit colour of Summer Squash (Cucurbita pepo) is governed by a gene which pruduces yellow colour in dominant state (Y-) and green colour in recessive state (yy).