BIOL 1090 Chapter Notes - Chapter p 63-70: Cinnabar, Peptide, Chinchilla

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Me(cid:374)del"s e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts esta(cid:271)lished that ge(cid:374)es (cid:272)a(cid:374) e(cid:454)ist i(cid:374) alter(cid:374)ate for(cid:373)s. Genes can exist in more than two allelic states, and each allele can have a different effect on the phenotype. An allele is dominant if it has the same phenotypic effect in heterozygotes as in homozygotes that is, the genotypes aa and aa and phenotypically indistinguishable. Sometimes a heterozygote has a phenotype different from that of either of its associated homozygotes. An example of this is flower colour in the snapdragon, white and red varieties are homozygous for different alleles of a colour determining gene and when crossed they produce heterozygotes that have pink flowers. The allele for red colour (w) is therefore said to be incompletely, or partially, dominant over the allele for the white colour (w). The most likely explanation is that the intensity of pigmentation in this species depends on the amount of a product specified by the colour gene.

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