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Incomplete Dominance & Codominance

This document discusses genetic inheritance patterns such as incomplete dominance and codominance. It defines key terms like genotype, phenotype, allele, and inheritance. It explains that incomplete dominance results in an intermediate phenotype between the two parental traits, like pink flowers from a cross of red and white. Codominance is when both alleles are expressed simultaneously, so a cross of black and white chickens produces speckled offspring that show both traits.

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Incomplete Dominance & Codominance

This document discusses genetic inheritance patterns such as incomplete dominance and codominance. It defines key terms like genotype, phenotype, allele, and inheritance. It explains that incomplete dominance results in an intermediate phenotype between the two parental traits, like pink flowers from a cross of red and white. Codominance is when both alleles are expressed simultaneously, so a cross of black and white chickens produces speckled offspring that show both traits.

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Incomplete Dominance &

Codominance
What do you know of the following terms?

• Inheritance – is a mechanism in which one


class acquires the property of another
class. For example, a child inherits the
traits of his/her parents

• Allele – a different form of a gene that


controls a certain traits
What do you know of the following terms?

• Phenotype – the set of observable


characteristics of an individual resulting
from the interaction of its genotype with
the environment.

• Genotype – the genetic constitution of an


individual organism.
Review of Mendel’s Principles
• Genes are passed parents  offspring; get one allele from each parent
• During Meiosis, the alleles for a gene segregate from each other.
• During Meiosis, genes independently assort with each other.

Exceptions to
Mendel’s principles
Sometimes, there is no dominant or recessive
gene, or the trait is controlled by many alleles
or genes.
Incomplete Dominance
• Is a form of intermediate inheritance in which
one allele for a specific trait is not completely
dominant over the other allele. This results in
a third phenotype in which the expressed
physical trait is a combination of the
dominant and recessive phenotypes.
Incomplete Dominance
• In Incomplete Dominance, every genotype has its own phenotype.
(One allele not completely dominant over the other.)
• Third phenotype that is a blending of the parental traits. (2 alleles
produce 3 phenotypes.)
• Result: Heterozygous phenotype somewhere in between
homozygous phenotype.
1. Incomplete Dominance

Examples:
• Trait: Flower Color
Expressions: Red x White 
Pink
RR= Red; RW= pink; WW=
white

• straight hair, wavy, curly


Incomplete Dominance
Codominance
In codominance, neither allele are dominant; both are expressed. A cross
between organisms with two different phenotypes produces offspring
with has both phenotypes of the parental traits shown.
2. Codominance
• Both alleles contribute to the phenotype.
• Example: In come chickens
Black Chicken x White  Speckled Chicken

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