Lethal 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 lethal alleles exemplify an exception to Mendelian inheritance.
Topics
- 2:1 phenotypic ratio
- 2:1 ratio
- 3:1 phenotypic ratio
- 3:1 ratio
- agouti allele
- agouti gene
- agouti
- complete dominance
- Cuénot
- dominance
- dominant lethal allele
- exception to Mendel
- genotype
- Gregor Mendel
- inheritance
- inviable
- lethal allele
- lethal yellow allele
- lethality
- Lucien Cuénot
- Mendel
- Mendelian trait
- mouse coat color
- phenotype
- pleiotropic gene
- pleiotropy
- principles of inheritance
- recessive lethal allele
- simple trait
- viable
- yellow allele