Extensions of the Laws of Inheritance

Extensions of the Laws of Inheritance

This text discusses alternatives to dominance & recessiveness, evolutionary connections, linked genes, and epistasis.

Topics

  • allele
  • codominance
  • continuous variation
  • dihybrid
  • discontinuous variation
  • dominant
  • epistasis
  • F1
  • F2
  • genotype
  • hemizygous
  • heterozygous
  • homozygous
  • hybridization
  • incomplete dominance
  • law of dominance
  • law of independent assortment
  • law of segregation
  • linkage
  • model system
  • monohybrid
  • parental generation (P)
  • phenotype
  • Punnett square
  • recessive
  • reciprocal cross
  • recombination
  • test cross
  • trait
  • wild type
  • X-linked