ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Zygosity, Phenotype, Allele
28 Nov 2013
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Re-cap from january 16th where we left off: Principle of independent assortment continuous (mendelian traits are discrete) additive effect. Principle of segregation (page 50) of the book. Genotype is the genetic makeup of an individual. Phenotype is the physical or detectable trait of a person. Recessive traits are expressed by smaller case letters. Co dominance // where both alleles are expressed and neither one of them is dominant over the other. Sickle cell page 65 to 67 know this possibly for midterm. Monogenic traits they are called this because they are traits that are controlled by alleles from 1 genetic locus. Blood types: a (aa, ao) or b (bb,bo) or o (oo) or ab. Remember: phenotypes are the a,o and b but the genotypes are the smaller case letters. Where there are 3 alleles: a,b and o. Principle of independent assortment (don"t need to know) A trait that are governed by a group of nonallelic genes.
