Patterns of Inheritance

The heterozygotes resulting in a cross between two purebreds has a phenotype that resembles an intermediate form between the two parents. 

• Incomplete Dominance
• Complete dominance
• Co - Dominance 
• Multiple Alleles

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

The Himalayan Chinchilla can be different varieties of colors based on inheriting combinations of the  C allele, C^ch , or C^h allele

• Polygenic Inheritance
• Pleiotropy
• Codominance 
• Multiple Alleles

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A person with blood type AB expresses two markers on the surface of their blood cells. Each marker is coded for by a different allele. 

• Complete dominance
• Multiple Alleles
• Codominance 
• Polygenic Inheritance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

This pattern of inheritance usually results in a normal bell curve of variation in a given population, like the inheritance of height 

• Pleiotropy
• Polygenic Inheritance
• Multiple alleles
• Incomplete Dominance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

This pattern of inheritance was observed by Gregor Mendel where one allele coding for a gene is deemed dominant and manifests in the phenotype over the other allele deemed recessive. 

• Codominance
• Complete Dominance 
• Multiple Alleles
• Epistasis

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

This pattern of inheritance is demonstrated when a gene from one locus can prevent the full expression of another gene at a different locus. 

• Multiple alleles
• Polygenic Inheritance
• Codominance 
• Epistasis

This pattern of inheritance is when one gene or mutation can have multiple phenotypic effects

• Multiple alleles
• Polygenic inheritance
• Pleiotropy
• Codominance