Saturday, October 1, 2011

3.18) c. Codominance


Recall the meaning of the terms: dominant, recessive, homozygous, phenotype, genotype and codominance.

Codominance refers to a relationship between two alleles of a gene in which both phenotypes of the genes are visible and do not over power each other in phenotype. This happens when both alleles are dominant. 
The offspring will result in an unusual third phenotype as the parents both contribute to the phenotype. The offspring's genotype would be a heterozygous of both dominant alleles. 


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