One Gene, Multiple Factors

This pathway explores factors that act at individual loci and can alter the phenotypic ratios that Mendel’s principles predict. These factors include different types of dominance relationships, multiple alleles, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, penetrance, and expressivity.

Topics

  • 1:2:1 genotypic ratio
  • 1:2:1 phenotypic ratio
  • 1:2:1 ratio
  • 2:1 phenotypic ratio
  • 2:1 ratio
  • 3:1 phenotypic ratio
  • 3:1 ratio
  • ABO blood type system
  • ABO blood type
  • ABO gene
  • ABO
  • agouti allele
  • agouti gene
  • agouti
  • allele
  • allelic series
  • antigen
  • AY allele
  • blood type
  • cattle coat color
  • cattle coat
  • cattle
  • characteristic
  • chicken feather color
  • chicken plumage
  • coat color inheritance
  • coat color
  • codominance
  • codominant alleles
  • common variant
  • complete dominance
  • complete penetrance
  • concept of dominance
  • cross-pollinate
  • Cuénot
  • dihybrid cross
  • dominance relationship
  • dominance
  • dominant allele
  • dominant lethal allele
  • dominant trait
  • drosophila
  • exception to Mendel
  • expressivity
  • F1 generation
  • F1 hybrid
  • FBN1 gene
  • FBN1
  • first filial generation
  • first filial hybrid
  • flower color inheritance
  • flower color
  • frizzle gene
  • frizzle trait
  • frizzle
  • gene A
  • gene F
  • gene I
  • genetic cross
  • genotype
  • genotypic ratio
  • Gregor Mendel
  • guinea pig fur color
  • hearing loss
  • heterozygous offspring
  • heterozygous
  • Holt-Oram syndrome
  • homozygous
  • HOS
  • human ABO blood type
  • human blood type
  • hybrid
  • incomplete dominance
  • incomplete penetrance
  • incompletely dominant alleles
  • inheritance
  • intermediate phenotype
  • invariable expressivity
  • inviable
  • law of independent assortment
  • law of segregation
  • lethal allele
  • lethal yellow allele
  • lethality
  • Lucien Cuénot
  • Manx cat
  • Marfan syndrome
  • mast cell growth factor gene
  • mast cell growth factor protein
  • Mendel
  • Mendelian genetics
  • Mendelian trait
  • MFS
  • MGF gene
  • MGF protein
  • MN blood type
  • monohybrid cross
  • monomorphic
  • mouse coat color
  • mouse fur color
  • multiple alleles
  • mutant allele
  • mutant
  • PAH gene
  • PAH
  • pairwise cross
  • parental blood type
  • pea plant
  • pea seed shape
  • penetrance
  • phenotype
  • phenotypic range
  • phenotypic ratio
  • phenylalanine hydroxylase gene
  • phenylalanine hydroxylase
  • phenylketonuria
  • Pisum sativum
  • PKU
  • pleiotropic gene
  • pleiotropy
  • polydactyly
  • polymorphic
  • principles of inheritance
  • rabbit coat color
  • recessive allele
  • recessive lethal allele
  • recessive trait
  • retinoblastoma
  • Rh blood type
  • roan coat
  • roan
  • self-fertilization
  • simple trait
  • single gene inheritance
  • snapdragon flower color
  • snapdragon flower
  • snapdragon plant
  • snapdragon
  • syndrome
  • TBX5 gene
  • TBX5
  • trait
  • true-breeding parent
  • true-breeding
  • types of dominance
  • universal donor
  • universal recipient
  • unvarying expressivity
  • variable expressivity
  • variant
  • viable
  • white eye in drosophila
  • white gene
  • wild type
  • wild-type allele
  • yellow allele