Principles of Anatomy and Physiology 14e with Atlas of the Skeleton Set (14th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 1-11877-456-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-11877-456-4

Chapter 29 - Development and Inheritance - Checkpoint - Page 1123: 38

Answer

Incomplete dominance is a condition in which the putative dominant gene of a pair of alleles for a trait is not completely dominant over the putative recessive gene The result is that a heterozygote genotype for this locus is expressed not as completely dominant phenotype, but as a phenotype intermediate in characteristics( dimensions or quality) between the expression of the dominant variant allele and the recessive allele .

Work Step by Step

Sickle cell disease is an example of a condition that demonstrates incomplete dominance. Tay Sack's Disease and pitch of the male voice are possibly other cases in which there is incomplete expression of dominance.
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