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.
Adj. 1. polygenic-of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes. genetic science, genetics-the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms.dj. 1. Of, relating to, or determined by polygenes: polygenic inheritance. 2. a. Of or relating to polygenesis; polygenetic. b. Of or relating to polygenism.