BIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Homologous Chromosome, Phenotype, Zygosity

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Chromosomes are discrete segments of dna wrapped around protein. It comes down to how much of those is composed of genes and how genes are translated and spliced, etc. each gene has a specific location on chromosome(locus) only 2% of chromosome encodes genes. Genes are sequences of nucleotides that encode a polypeptide chain. Alleles are different nucleotide sequences at the same locus on two homologous chromosomes. It"s the same kind of gene (hair, eye) at the same location on each chromosome. Due to the fact you inherited these from different parents, that may be different. The dominant allele exerts its effect whenever present. Recessive allele is masked if dominant allele is present". Most common allele not always the dominant one ( blue eyes common in norther europe but is recessive) Genotype is genetic makeup. alleles are same, they are homozygous. They could be homozygous recessive- tt or dominant- tt.

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