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Genetics

Published on Jan 28, 2016

Examples of non-Mendelian inheritance

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Genetics

Beyond Mendel
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Some feathers are black, others white

Codominance

BOTH alleles are expressed simultaneously

Human height?

How can there be so much variation in
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Polygenic trait

Partly because it's a
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How do we get pink snapdragons?

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Incomplete dominance

They are heterozygous for red and white
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What would this look like

if the red and white alleles were codominant instead?

Both traits would be expressed

How is skin color determined?

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Many genes affect skin color

so it's another polygenic trait

What's going on here?

Multiple alleles
but only one gene. Each individual has two alleles, but there are seven alleles for clover leaf patterns