Non-Mendelian Inheritance

A red flowering plant is crossed with a blue flowering plant.  The offspring are all purple.  The inheritance pattern is:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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A red flowering plant is crossed with a white flowering plant.  The offspring are all white.  The inheritance pattern is:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A red flowering plant is crossed with a yellow flowering plant.  The offspring are all red with yellow edges.  The inheritance pattern is:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

A species of raccoon can be any shade of grey from almost white to almost black.  This is most likely an example of:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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When normal deer are crossed with short deer, the offspring express a height between the parent phenotypes:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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There are three possible colors for the mane of a horse – black, white and brown:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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Sickle cell anemia, caused by a single defective nucleotide:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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Mice can have either black or red eyes, which is controlled by a single gene.

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Blue frogs are crossed with black frogs, resulting in frogs with blue and black spots.

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

If color is a result of a single gene, the most likely explanation:

• codominance

• complete dominance (Mendelian)

• incomplete dominance

• multiple alleles

• polygenic inheritance

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