BIOL 1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mendelian Inheritance, Ploidy, Gamete

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Reverse meiosis (my term, not a real term) Chromosome terminology locus is a xed position on a chromosome, (plural is loci) short or p arm long or q arm. Could be a gene, or any unique sequence. locus. Here we have two alleles: a" and a". Upper case letter refers to the dominant (expressed factor) allele, lower case to the recessive (latent factor) allele. Alleles are typically designated after the recessive trait. e. g. a y with a mutation in a gene causes a white eye, whereas the wild type eye is red. The alleles would be w=white eye; w=red eye. Diploid germ cell after s- phase, before anaphase i (eg. primary spermatocyte) locus. Here, the leptin gene is the locus, which could also be referred to as the lep locus (named after the gene) or the ob locus (named after the phenotype). There are two alleles: dominant l and recessive l .

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