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Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms: Heredity and Genetic Variation
Non-Mendelian Inheritance II
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Non-Mendelian Inheritance II
Co-dominance is a type of non-Mendelian inheritance where both alleles in a gene pair are fully expressed in a heterozygous organism. Instead of one trait being dominant over the other, both traits appear together without blending into each other. A ...
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Have you ever seen a cow with both red and white spots? That’s not just its coloring; it’s a real example of codominance.
It is a type of non-Mendelian inheritance where an organism inherits two different alleles, one from each parent, and both are expressed equally.
Another example is human blood type. There are three alleles: IA,...
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