Genetics Part II Chapter 7
Autosome inheritance- dominant and recessive (a carrier does not show disease in recessive inheritance)
Sex-linked trait inheritance Genes that are located on the sex chromosomes are called sex-linked traits Examples –Baldness and colorblindness
Incomplete Dominance Incomplete dominance is when the heterozygous phenotype is somewhere between the two homozygous phenotypes
Codominance Codominance is when both alleles of a gene are expressed completely- neither allele is dominant nor recessive
Polygenic Traits Polygenic traits- traits produced by two or more genes
Epistasis An epistatic gene can interfere with the expression of other genes Example- albinism