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.
- Alleles determine the different traits which carry different phenotype. - Trait does not have homozygous and heterozygous like allele does. - Trait us a product of biochemical reactions, whereas allele is a small segment of DNA. - Trait is a characteristic of an individual, whereas alleles carry information which is. accountable for a trait of an individual.