The production of a wild-type phenotype when two haploid genomes bearing different recessive mutations are united in the same cell.
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What is the complementation test?
Intercrossing two homozygous individuals for different recessive mutations. Then observe whether the progeny have the wild type phenotype.
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What is the complementation group?
When two or more genes control a phenotype
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How do phenotypes define the presence/absence of complementation?
When the progeny of a complementation test show the wild type phenotype, the two recessive mutations must be in different genes as the alleles provide wild type function.
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What is complementation used for?
To classify mutations as alleles of the same or of different genes.
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What is the complementation test?
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Intercrossing two homozygous individuals for different recessive mutations. Then observe whether the progeny have the wild type phenotype.
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What is the complementation group?
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How do phenotypes define the presence/absence of complementation?
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