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Qualitative Traits-beef cattle

Last Updated: May 22, 2012

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Qualitative Traits - Those traits in which there is a sharp distinction between phenotypes, such as black and white or polled and horned. Usually, only one or few pairs of genes are involved in the expression of qualitative traits.

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