1. of or pertaining to a colony or colonies. 2. (often cap.) of or pertaining to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America, or to their period. 3. (of an animal) a. having a way of life that requires being part of a community of its own kind: Penguins are colonial birds.
2016-07-20T09:23:03-04:00. The difference between a monogenic inheritance and a polygenic inheritance are the amount of alleles they depend on. A monogenic inheritance depends on only one single allele while a polygenic inheritance depends on multiple alleles. Monogenic refers to qualitative traits and polygenic refers to quantitative traits.
Dominant vs Recessive. Genetics is the science of heredity, genes, and the differences in living organisms. It is a biological discipline that deals with the structure and function of genes, their behavior and patterns of inheritance from the parents to the offspring..An individual receives two copies of each trait that he inherits from his parents, one from the mother and one from the father, with one of them dominant and the other recessive. 2.A dominant gene is one which is strong while a recessive gene is one which is weak.