Question Set: Factors Affecting a Single Gene

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 introduction to this topic, visit the Multiple Alleles, Pleiotropy, Lethal Alleles, and Penetrance and Expressivity texts.

Topics

  • ABO blood type
  • ABO
  • allelic series
  • blood type
  • dominance relationship
  • exception to Mendel
  • expressivity
  • Gregor Mendel
  • human ABO blood type
  • lethal allele
  • Manx cat
  • Mendel
  • Mendelian genetics
  • multiple alleles
  • pairwise cross
  • penetrance
  • pleiotropy
  • principles of inheritance
  • rabbit coat color
  • retinoblastoma
  • single gene inheritance
  • white eye in drosophila
  • white gene