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Multiple Alleles, Incomplete Dominance, and Codominance (Article) - Khan Academy PDF
Multiple Alleles, Incomplete Dominance, and Codominance (Article) - Khan Academy PDF
Introduction
Gregor Mendel knew how to keep things simple. In
Mendel's work on pea plants, each gene came in
just two different versions, or alleles, and these
alleles had a nice, clear-cut dominance relationship
(with the dominant allele fully overriding the
recessive allele to determine the plant's
appearance).
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Incomplete dominance
Mendel’s results were groundbreaking partly
because they contradicted the (then-popular) idea
that parents' traits were permanently blended in
their offspring. In some cases, however, the
phenotype of a heterozygous organism can actually
be a blend between the phenotypes of its
homozygous parents.
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Codominance
Closely related to incomplete dominance is
codominance, in which both alleles are
simultaneously expressed in the heterozygote.
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Multiple alleles
Mendel's work suggested that just two alleles
existed for each gene. Today, we know that's not
always, or even usually, the case! Although
individual humans (and all diploid organisms) can
only have two alleles for a given gene, multiple
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Multiple alleles,
incomplete dominance,
and codominance A dominance hierarchy does not always have to be
linear. However, remember that each child can only
Pleiotropy and lethal inherit 2 alleles of a given gene from its parents out of
alleles the pool of possible alleles of that gene.
Polygenic inheritance So, for example, if we have three alleles for flower
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and environmental colour - R (red), Y (yellow) and B (blue), it's possible for
effects the dominance to be R > Y; Y > B; B > R. A child could
have genotypes of [RY], [RB] and [YB], producing
Practice: Non-Mendelian phenotypes of red, blue and yellow flowers
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Yes
No
From what I understand, the dominant allele is the one
that is expressed. Also, the dominant allele is always
represented by capitol or upper case letters. A
recessive allele on the other hand, will only be
expressed if there is no dominant allele present for its
specific trait. Recessive alleles are lower case letters.
Example:
A fog's alleles for color are R (red, dominant) and r
(orange, recessive). We have three frogs with three
different genotypes:
Frog #1 - RR
Frog #2 - Rr
Frog #3 - rr
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about a year ago by Noah Cardoza
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Not really.
In codominance, both alleles are completely
expressed. If you crossed a red flower with a white one
and the alleles were codominant, you might get flowers
that are red and white in patches. If the alleles were
incompletely dominant, the flowers would be pink
because the traits blend.
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