alleryStart learning →In an epistatic pair of genes, what are the alleles being masked called?
AEpistatic alleles
BHemizygous alleles
CHypostatic alleles
DHomozygous alleles
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Hypostatic alleles
1. Epistasis involves a masking gene and a masked gene.
2. The alleles doing the masking are the epistatic ones.
3. The alleles being masked or silenced are said to be hypostatic.
4. Often the biochemical basis is a pathway in which one gene's expression depends on another gene acting before it.
5. Hemizygous and homozygous describe how many alleles an individual carries, not which one masks the other.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 12 "Mendel's Experiments and Heredity", section 12.3 Laws of Inheritance_
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