Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Genetics

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What is the genotype?

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The genetic makeup of an organism.

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What inheritance pattern is shown when a black chicken and a white chicken produce only checkered chickens?

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Co-Dominance.

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What type of inheritance is characterized by both alleles being expressed equally?

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Co-Dominance.

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What are height and skin color examples of?

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Polygenic traits.

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What is the result of crossing a homozygous dominant brown mouse with a heterozygous brown mouse (where tan is recessive)?

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100% brown mice.

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What is the definition of co-dominance?

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A genetic scenario where both alleles in a heterozygote are fully expressed.

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What is incomplete dominance?

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A genetic situation where the phenotype of a heterozygote is intermediate between the phenotypes of the two homozygotes.

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What are polygenic traits?

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Traits controlled by two or more genes, resulting in a range of phenotypes.

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What does homozygous mean?

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Having two identical alleles for a particular gene.

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What does heterozygous mean?

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Having two different alleles for a particular gene.