Which of the following is an example of pleiotropy?\

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(c) : Pleiotropic gene is such a gene which has a wider effect on phenotype, i.e., it controls several phenotypic traits. Sickle cell anaemia is considered to be caused by one such pleiotropic gene. It is caused due to mutation in $\beta$-globin gene of haemoglobin.\