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Chapter 11
Beyond Mendel
Conditions that Mendel didn't explore - genetic traits that are inherited in
new and interesting patterns
Incomplete Dominance
Codominance
Multiple Allele Traits
Epistatic Alleles
Sex Determination
Polygenic Inheritance
Incomplete
Dominance
Traits appear to
"blend" in offspring
RR x WW
RW (pink)
Show:
Pink x Red
Pink x Pink
White x White
Figure 11.14
This illustrates
another style of
"letters" to denote
genotypes
R1 and R2
Codominance
Both alleles in a heterozygous individual are expressed
Sickle Cell Trait in Humans
Genotypes & Phenotypes
SS= not sickle cell
Ss= a little sickle cell
ss= a lot sickle cell
Coloration in Rodents
Black x White = Gray
BB x WW = BW
ROAN COW What happens when you cross a white and a red cow?
Roan is codominant - both alleles R and W are expressed
What happens when two Roan Cows
are Crossed?
Blood Types - Multiple Alleles
When doing blood type crosses, you will need to know whether at
type A or B person is heterozygous or homozygous. Type O's are
automatically OO and type AB is automatically AB. Crosses are
performed the same as any other.
Show Crosses:
AB x AO
AO x BO
AA x AB
A woman who is type A is married to a man who is type B,
what are ALL of the possible blood types of their children?
Many Genes Have Multiple Alleles
A population might have more than two alleles for a given gene.
In Labrador retriever, coat color is determined by one gene with four
different alleles. Five different colors result from the combinations of these
alleles. (More on labradors later)
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Eye color is also controlled by multiple alleles
LABRADOR RETRIEVERS AND EPISTATIC
ALLELES
• A population might have more than two alleles for a given gene.
• In labrador retriever, coat color is determined by one gene with four
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different alleles. Five different colors result from the combinations of these
alleles.
Even if more than two alleles exist in a population, any given individual can
have no more than two of them: one from the mother and one from the
father.
Black is dominant to chocolate B or b
Yellow is recessive epistatic (when present, it
blocks the expression of the black and
chocolate alleles) E or e
Yellow Lab
Black Lab
Chocolate Lab
BBee
Bbee
bbee
BBEE
BbEE
BBEe
BbEe
bbEE
bbEe
1. A black lab (BBEe) x
yellow lab (bbee)
2. A chocolate lab (bbEe) x black
lab (BbEe)
3. Two black labs (BBEE x BbEe)
Sex Linked Genes
Genes located on the X chromosome are
inherited with that X. When doing crosses you
must include the sex chromosomes in your
cross. Use superscript letters for the allele.
Example: In fruit flies, eye color is a sex linked
trait. Red is dominant to white.
Females
XRXR
XRXr
XrXr
Males
XR Y
Xr Y
FRUIT FLY
CHROMOSOMESDrosophila
melanogaster
Show the cross between a white eyed male and a red eyed
female: XrY x XRXR
Show the cross between a red eyed male and a white eyed
female:
Figure 12.2
Human Sex Linked Disorders
1.Colorblindness
2.Muscular Dystrophy
3.Hemophilia
4.Fragile X Syndrome
COLORBLINDNESS
More Tests
Color Blindness Simulation http://www.idea.org/vision-demo.html?gclid=CJejqJ38_JgCFQ4eDQodUzNEmQ
Tests
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp
Polygenic Traits
• Individual heritable characters are often found to be controlled by
groups of several genes, called polygenes.
• Each allele intensifies or diminishes the phenotype.
• Variation is continuous or quantitative (adding up) - also called
quantitative inheritance
• Seed Color in wheat - aabbcc, Aabbcc, AaBbcc, AaBbCc, AABbCc,
AABBCC (light, intermediate colors, dark)
• In humans - hair color, height, skin color
Pg 197
Polygenic Inheritance
AABBCC x aabbcc (P)
AaBbCc x AaBbCc (F1)
Seven Possible Phenotypes in the F2
Figure 11.16
Figure 11.17
Environment and PhenotypeTemperature, water, food sources can
have an affect on how a gene is expressed
Rabbits have a gene that codes for darker
pigments - this gene is more active at low
temperatures. Parts of the body that are colder
will develop the darker pigmentation - ears and
feet
Figure 11.18b