Question

ABO blood group system is due to

• A. multifactor inheritance
• B. incomplete dominance
• C. multiple allelism
• D. epistasis.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

ABO blood group system is due to multiple allelism. A gene can have more than two alleles or allelomorphs, which can be expressed by mutation in wild form in more than one ways. These alleles or allelomorphs make a series of multiple alleles. The mode of inheritance in case of multiple alleles is called multiple allelism. A well known and simplest example of multiple allelism is the inheritance of ABO blood groups in human beings. In human population, 3 different alleles for this character are found $-I^A{I}^B$ and $I^o$. A person is having only two of these three alleles and blood type can be determined.