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What is the mechanism behind pleiotropy?

What is the mechanism behind pleiotropy? Correct Answer Effect of a gene on metabolic pathways

Pleiotropy is the phenomenon by which a single gene affects different metabolic pathways and these different metabolic pathways result in different phenotypes.

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