Pleiotropy
Additional factors that act on a single gene can alter the expected outcomes that Mendel’s basic principles of inheritance predict. This text explores how pleiotropy exemplifies an exception to Mendelian inheritance.
Topics
- chicken plumage
- complete dominance
- dominance
- exception to Mendel
- FBN1 gene
- FBN1
- frizzle gene
- frizzle trait
- frizzle
- genetics
- genotype
- Gregor Mendel
- Holt-Oram syndrome
- HOS
- inheritance
- Marfan syndrome
- Mendel
- Mendelian trait
- MFS
- PAH gene
- PAH
- phenotype
- phenylalanine hydroxylase
- phenylketonuria
- PKU
- pleiotropic gene
- pleiotropy
- principles of inheritance
- simple trait
- syndrome
- TBX5 gene
- TBX5