Biology 1001A Lecture 10: Lecture 12 - Inheritance in Population

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Explain the genetics of human abo blood groups. You may use the diagram to the right. Explain a strategy to distinguish between a phenotype that results from codominance vs. incomplete dominance. Strategy to distinguish between a phenotype that results from codominance relative to incomplete dominance. Incomplete dominance occurs when the effects of recessive alleles can be detected to some extent in heterozygotes. For example, in snapdragons, when a red flower and a white flower cross, they produce a pink flower. Two red colour alleles are needed to make enough pigment to produce entirely red colour. Of course, when crossed, the pink flowers can produce both red and white flowers. Codominance occurs when alleles have approximately equal effects in individuals, making the two alleles equally detectable in heterozygotes. Human blood types a and b are codominant. You would not be able to distinguish between codominance and incomplete dominance by looking at the inheritance patterns because they are the same.

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