Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

What causes heterosis?

Correct answer D. All of the above

Explanation

Hybrid vigour is explained by dominance, where favourable dominant alleles mask harmful ones, by over-dominance of heterozygotes, and by epistatic interactions.

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