Multiple Alleles

Multiple Alleles

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 multiple alleles exemplify an exception to Mendelian inheritance.

Topics

  • ABO blood type
  • ABO
  • agouti allele
  • agouti gene
  • agouti
  • allele
  • allelic series
  • antigen
  • common variant
  • complete dominance
  • dominance
  • exception to Mendel
  • genotype
  • Gregor Mendel
  • human blood type
  • inheritance
  • Mendel
  • Mendelian trait
  • monomorphic
  • mouse coat color
  • multiple alleles
  • mutant allele
  • mutant
  • pairwise cross
  • phenotype
  • polymorphic
  • principles of inheritance
  • simple trait
  • universal donor
  • universal recipient
  • variant
  • wild type
  • wild-type allele