Approximately 40 percent of cats with white fur and blue eyes are completely deaf. in cats with one blue eye and one eye of a different color, deafness occurs only on the blue-eyed side. white fur, blue eyes, and deafness are linked to a single pleiotropic gene in cats. based on the information above, it can be concluded that pleiotropy occurs when a. one trait is influenced by many genes. b. a trait is influenced by both genes and environment. c. one gene influences multiple traits. d. a trait is not influenced by genes.

C. one gene influences multiple traits.

Explanation:

Pleiotropy can be defined as a phenomenon in genetics whereby one particular gene in the affects or influences multiple phenotypic traits expressed in the human body.

Pleiotropy can result in the occurrence of disorders in a human body. An example of Pleiotropy is Phenylketonuria.

Phenylketonuria is a human or animal disorder occurs due to the build of the amino acid phenylalanine in the body. This could result serious neurological to the brain such as seizures, damages to the intellectual capacity of the brain e.t.c.

Another symptom of Phenylketonuria is the presence of fair skin and blue eyes because the body was unable to convert or transform phenylalanine to melanin (which gives pigmentation to the body)

prophase: we can observe the chromosomes to coil up and condense. they become visible. nuclear membrane and envelope disintigrate.s

metaphase: chromosomes align at the center, the metaphase plate. spindle fibers attach to centromeres of the sister chromatids. they meet at kinetochores.

anaphase: sister chromatids are pulled towards each opposing centromere, set on different poles.

telophase: chromosomes are now clustered up only on either sides of the cell. nuclear membranes reform, and a new cell wall forms along the cell plate. this will lead to cytokinesis, the process that divides the cell membrane and forms the cell wall.