Question Set: One Gene, Multiple Factors

Use this question set to review concepts that are related to exceptions to Mendel’s basic principles of inheritance for a single gene. For an overview of exceptions to Mendelian genetics, visit the Additional Factors at a Single Locus Can Affect the Results of a Genetic Cross text.

Topics

  • ABO blood type
  • ABO
  • allelic series
  • blood type
  • chicken feather color
  • codominance
  • complete dominance
  • dominance relationship
  • dominance relationship
  • exception to Mendel
  • expressivity
  • genetics
  • Gregor Mendel
  • guinea pig fur color
  • hearing loss
  • human ABO blood type
  • incomplete dominance
  • lethal allele
  • Manx cat
  • Mendel
  • Mendelian genetics
  • MN blood type
  • mouse fur color
  • multiple alleles
  • pairwise cross
  • parental blood type
  • penetrance
  • pleiotropy
  • principles of inheritance
  • Rh blood type
  • single gene inheritance