GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
Question
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Recessive genes
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Dominant genes
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Chromosomes
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Inherited traits
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Detailed explanation-1: -Codominance. As opposed to partial dominance, codominance occurs when the phenotypes of both parents are simultaneously expressed in the same offspring organism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Genes can come in 2 different forms called alleles. We represent alleles with both lowercase and uppercase letters. Uppercase and lowercase letters are used to show which alleles are dominant and which are recessive. A dominant (uppercase letter) allele will overpower a recessive allele (lowercase letter).
Detailed explanation-3: -One allele for every gene in an organism is inherited from each of that organism’s parents. In some cases, both parents provide the same allele of a given gene, and the offspring is referred to as homozygous ("homo” meaning “same") for that allele.
Detailed explanation-4: -Genetics is the scientific study of genes and heredity-of how certain qualities or traits are passed from parents to offspring as a result of changes in DNA sequence.