Which of the following is the example of pleiotropic gene?

Which of the following is the example of pleiotropic gene?
  1. Haemophilia
  2. Thalassemia
  3. Sickle cell anaemia
  4. Colour blindness

Solution

Sickle cell anaemia is an example of pleiotropic gene because here the mutation in the single gene carries out a number of changes throughout the body and affects the body in different ways.

Asked in: NEET 2002

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