Question

directions
respond to the following warm - up prompt with a 100 - word - minimum response. not sure how or where to start?

• remember this is a warm - up. the focus is on exploring your current thinking and ideas!
• think about ways you can connect this warm - up question to yourself, the real world, or prior learnings from this course.

warm - up prompt / materials

• mendel argues that there are dominant and recessive traits. think about traits where there are more than 2 options.
• what are some traits that have a broad range of different phenotypes?
• how might these traits come about?

your submission (0/1 points)
submitted on feb 02, 2026 at 10:54 pm

Explanation:

Answer:

Some traits with a broad range of phenotypes include human skin color, height, and eye color.
These traits arise from polygenic inheritance, where multiple genes contribute additively to the phenotype, combined with environmental influences that modify gene expression.