Sorry. What is the difference between polygenic inheritance and polymorphism?
Thanks
Polygenic inheritance refers to a particular trait that is controlled/produced by the interaction of many genes, whereas polymorphism refers to the presence of different phenotypes within a population resulting from the presence of two or more alleles.
And also polygenes too. Thanks- these words confuse ne
Polygenes are what you get as a result of polygenic inheritance.
A question of my own:
Which signal transduction pathway (steroid or peptide hormone) would have a faster response to the presence of the hormone?I said it would be the steroid hormone pathway, as it can readily pass the cell membrane and directly attach to its specific receptor. Second messengers are not required, thus less reactions occur, leading to a faster response.
But the answers say otherwise; less time is needed for the peptide hormone to bind with the transmembrane receptor.
I always thought steroid hormones would produce the faster response...