Biology 1001A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Genotype Frequency, Allele Frequency, Frequency-Dependent Selection

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Lecture 12: strategy to distinguish between a phenotype that results from codominance relative to incomplete dominance (cid:120) (cid:120) (cid:120) 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. White alleles make no pigment whatsoever (cid:120) of course, when crossed, the pink flowers can produce both red and white flowers (cid:120) (cid:120) In codominance, the effects of different alleles are equally detectable in heterozygotes. The alleles have approximately equal effects in individuals (cid:120) human blood types a and b are codominant (cid:120) You would not be able to distinguish between codominance and incomplete dominance by looking at the inheritance patterns because they are the same: characteristics that identify a pleiotropic allele (cid:120) (cid:120) (cid:120)

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