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One gene pair hides the effect of anothe...

One gene pair hides the effect of another. The pheomenon is:

A

epistasis

B

dominance

C

mutation

D

None of these

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A
Epistasis is the phenomenon by which a gene suppresses the phenotypic expression of a non-allelic gene.
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