A collection of particular persons or items, formed into one body; as a corporation aggregate, which is one formed of a number of natural persons; the union of individual charges make an aggregate charge.
3. Pleiotropy (or pliotropy) is the phenomenon in which a single gene conditions several different phenotypical traits. Some phenotypical traits may be sensitive to the pleiotropic effects (for example, inhibition) of other genes, even when conditioned by a pair of alleles in simple dominance.A mixture of pleiotropy and gene interaction is characteristic of these cases.1  Non-Mendelian Inheritance-Image Diversity: pleiotropy.ome phenotypical traits may be sensitive to the pleiotropic effects (for example, inhibition) of other genes, even when conditioned by a pair of alleles in simple dominance. A mixture of pleiotropy and gene interaction is characteristic of these cases. 1  Non-Mendelian Inheritance-Image Diversity: pleiotropy.
Along with regulating wing development, the vg gene is also pleiotropic. Indirectly, the gene changes the number of egg strings in a fly's ovaries, alters the position of bristles on a fly's scutellum, and decreases the length of a fly's life (Caspari, 1952; Miglani, 2002).he term pleiotropy is derived from the Greek words pleio, which means many, and tropic, which means affecting.. Genes that affect multiple, apparently unrelated, phenotypes are thus called pleiotropic genes (Figure 1).