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