BIOLOGY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eye Color, Zygosity, Allele

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Review: gene: dna sequence that codes for a protein. Review: genome: all go an organism" dna, including genes and non-coding regions. Genetics: the study of genes and their transmission from one generation to the next. Genotype: actual genetic make-up (usually in reference to a single or a couple genes) Phenotype: observable physical and functional traits (i. e. eye color, height, but also blood type, susceptibility towards disease) Differences in genotype (and other things) lead to differences in phenotype. Review: allele: alternate versions of a gene. Slight differences in dna sequence -> small or major differences in protein structure/function. Homozygous: process two identical alleles of a specific gene. Heterozygous: possess two different alleles of a specific gene. Important: many genes have more than two possible alleles, but any one individual can only inherit two of them. Dominant allele: when an organism is heterozygous for a specific gene, the dominant allele will.

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