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.
Abstract. Monogenic inheritance refers to genetic control of a phenotype or trait by a single gene. For a monogenic trait, mutations in one (dominant) or both (recessive) copies of the gene are sufficient for the trait to be expressed.igenic inheritance refers to mutation on two genes interacting to cause a genetic phenotype or disease. Triallelic inheritance is a special case of digenic inheritance that requires homozygous mutations at one locus and heterozygous mutations at a second locus to express a phenotype.