Differentiate amongcomplete dominance, incomplete dominance andco-dominance.
3. Understand an allelicseries -How many possible alleles are there for any given gene? Isthere only one recessive allele for a gene? Is there only onedominant allele for a gene? Is an allele always recessive ordominant with respect to other alleles of the gene?
4. What is a lethalallele? Are lethal alleles usually dominant or recessive? Are thereany exceptions? (Hint: Huntington disease in humans). How do wemaintain stocks with lethal alleles?
5. How can you tell if anallele is lethal? If one of the parents has a lethal allele, wouldall the possible genotypes be present in the progeny? What wouldhappen to the phenotypic ratios of the progeny?
6. What ispleiotropy?
7. How can you tell if atrait is determined by more than one gene? What ratios ofphenotypes in the F2 generation would you expect if a trait isdetermined by a single gene?
8. What is epistasis? Howcan the genotype at a locus affect the phenotype determined by thegenotype at another locus? What are complementary gene action,duplicate gene action, dominant suppression, dominant epistasis,and recessive epistasis?
Differentiate amongcomplete dominance, incomplete dominance andco-dominance.
3. Understand an allelicseries -How many possible alleles are there for any given gene? Isthere only one recessive allele for a gene? Is there only onedominant allele for a gene? Is an allele always recessive ordominant with respect to other alleles of the gene?
4. What is a lethalallele? Are lethal alleles usually dominant or recessive? Are thereany exceptions? (Hint: Huntington disease in humans). How do wemaintain stocks with lethal alleles?
5. How can you tell if anallele is lethal? If one of the parents has a lethal allele, wouldall the possible genotypes be present in the progeny? What wouldhappen to the phenotypic ratios of the progeny?
6. What ispleiotropy?
7. How can you tell if atrait is determined by more than one gene? What ratios ofphenotypes in the F2 generation would you expect if a trait isdetermined by a single gene?
8. What is epistasis? Howcan the genotype at a locus affect the phenotype determined by thegenotype at another locus? What are complementary gene action,duplicate gene action, dominant suppression, dominant epistasis,and recessive epistasis?
