enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Genotype - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype

    In the example on the right, both parents are heterozygous, with a genotype of Bb. The offspring can inherit a dominant allele from each parent, making them homozygous with a genotype of BB. The offspring can inherit a dominant allele from one parent and a recessive allele from the other parent, making them heterozygous with a genotype of Bb.

  3. Asexual reproduction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_reproduction

    The offspring produced in androgenesis will still have maternally inherited mitochondria, as is the case with most sexually reproducing species. Androgenesis occurs in nature in many invertebrates (for example, clams, [ 34 ] stick insects, [ 35 ] some ants, [ 36 ] bees, [ 37 ] flies [ 38 ] and parasitic wasps [ 37 ] ) and vertebrates (mainly ...

  4. Hereditary carrier - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_carrier

    A hereditary carrier (genetic carrier or just carrier), is a person or other organism that has inherited a recessive allele for a genetic trait or mutation but usually does not display that trait or show symptoms of the disease. Carriers are, however, able to pass the allele onto their offspring, who may then express the genetic trait.

  5. Non-Mendelian inheritance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Mendelian_inheritance

    Offspring of the males with the trait don't inherit the trait. Offspring of the females with the trait always inherit the trait (independently from their own sex). Extranuclear inheritance (also known as cytoplasmic inheritance) is a form of non-Mendelian inheritance also first discovered by Carl Correns in 1908. [9]

  6. Chondrodystrophy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrodystrophy

    Chondrodystrophy has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.. Chondrodystrophy is an autosomal recessive disorder, meaning that in order for this disease to be expressed, the affected individual must possess two copies of the allele for the disorder.

  7. Heredity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heredity

    Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

  8. Genomic imprinting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting

    In diploid organisms (like humans), the somatic cells possess two copies of the genome, one inherited from the male and one from the female. Each autosomal gene is therefore represented by two copies, or alleles, with one copy inherited from each parent at fertilization. The expressed allele is dependent upon its parental origin.

  9. Maternal effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_effect

    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.