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.
Polygenic inheritance. Definition. noun. A non-Mendelian form of inheritance in which a particular trait is produced by the interaction of many genes.Supplement.Polygenic inheritance refers to the kind of inheritance in which the trait is produced from the cumulative effects of many genes in contrast to monogenic inheritance wherein the trait results from the expression of one gene (or one gene pair). non-Mendelian form of inheritance in which a particular trait is produced by the interaction of many genes.