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.
Inheritance [edit]. Polygenic inheritance occurs when one characteristic is controlled by two or more genes. Often the genes are large in quantity but small in effect. Examples of human polygenic inheritance are height, skin color, eye color and weight.Polygenes exist in other organisms, as well. Drosophila, for instance, display polygeny with traits such as wing morphology, bristle count and many others.hen the values are plotted, a bell-shaped curve is obtained. The mode of the distribution represents the optimal, or fittest, phenotype. The more genes are involved, the smoother the estimated curve. However, in this model all genes must code for alleles with additive effects.