B13- DNA and inheritance

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What is meant by the dominant allele?
An allele that only needs to be present once in order to be expressed, represented by eg: B
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What is meant by the recessive allele?
An allele that will only be expressed if both are present, represented by eg: b
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What is meant by an allele?
alternative forms of a particular gene
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What are genes?
Genes are parts of chromosomes, made up of DNA, which code for proteins.
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Homozygous
when an individual carries two copies of the same allele for a gene, eg: Bb
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Heterozygous
when an individual carries two different alleles for the same gene, eg Bb
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An allele that will only be expressed if both are present, represented by eg: b

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What is meant by the recessive allele?

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alternative forms of a particular gene

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Genes are parts of chromosomes, made up of DNA, which code for proteins.

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when an individual carries two copies of the same allele for a gene, eg: Bb

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