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  2. Hardy–Weinberg principle - Wikipedia

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    where n 11, n 12, n 22 are the observed numbers of the three genotypes, AA, Aa, and aa, respectively, and n 1 is the number of A alleles, where = +. An example Using one of the examples from Emigh (1980), [7] we can consider the case where n = 100, and p = 0.34. The possible observed heterozygotes and their exact significance level is given in ...

  3. XY sex-determination system - Wikipedia

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    The idea is instead of having a simplistic mechanism by which you have pro-male genes going all the way to make a male, in fact there is a solid balance between pro-male genes and anti-male genes and if there is a little too much of anti-male genes, there may be a female born and if there is a little too much of pro-male genes then there will ...

  4. Major histocompatibility complex and sexual selection

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    MHC-based sexual selection is known to involve olfactory mechanisms in such vertebrate taxa as fish, mice, humans, primates, birds, and reptiles. [1] At its simplest level, humans have long been acquainted with the sense of olfaction for its use in determining the pleasantness or the unpleasantness of one's resources, food, etc.

  5. Sex-determination system - Wikipedia

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    In this variant of the XY system, females have two copies of the sex chromosome (XX) but males have only one (X0). The 0 denotes the absence of a second sex chromosome. Generally in this method, the sex is determined by amount of genes expressed across the two chromosomes.

  6. Obligate carrier - Wikipedia

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    In X-linked recessive disorders, only females can be the carriers of the recessive mutation, making them obligate carriers of this type of disease. Females acquire one X-chromosome from their father and one from their mother, and this means they can either be heterozygous for the mutated allele or homozygous. If heterozygous, she is a carrier ...

  7. Zygosity - Wikipedia

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    The words homozygous, heterozygous, and hemizygous are used to describe the genotype of a diploid organism at a single locus on the DNA. Homozygous describes a genotype consisting of two identical alleles at a given locus, heterozygous describes a genotype consisting of two different alleles at a locus, hemizygous describes a genotype consisting of only a single copy of a particular gene in an ...

  8. Disassortative mating - Wikipedia

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    One uncommon type of disassortative mating is the female preference on rare (or novel) male phenotypes. A study on guppies, Poecilia reticulata , revealed that the female preference was sufficient to tightly maintain polymorphism in male traits. [ 6 ]

  9. Maternal effect - Wikipedia

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    In genetics, a maternal effect occurs when the phenotype of an organism is determined by the genotype of its mother. [1] For example, if a mutation is maternal effect recessive, then a female homozygous for the mutation may appear phenotypically normal, however her offspring will show the mutant phenotype, even if they are heterozygous for the mutation.