Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305251052
Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To determine: The differences between gene, allele, and locus.

Introduction: The genotype is the genetic constitution of the organism while the phenotype refers to external characters visible in an organism.

b.

Summary Introduction

To determine: The differences between the genotype and phenotype.

Introduction: When the alleles inherited by the zygote are same then the genotype of the individual is called homozygous whereas, when the zygote inherits two different alleles it is called heterozygote.

c.

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To determine: The differences between dominant and recessive.

Introduction: The alleles are the two contrasting variants of characters controlled by a specific gene. These alleles are distributed into the gametes during meiosis and then combined in a zygote during fertilization.

d.

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To determine: The differences between complete dominance, incomplete dominance, and codominance.

Introduction: Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk, who worked on a pea plant to observe the pattern of inheritance of certain characters from the parent plant to the offsprings. He termed genes as factors that were passed from one generation to another. He proposed three laws which came are known as Mendel’s law of genetics.

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