Inheritance

Inheritance

1. Dominant; applied to an allele of a gene that is fully expressed in both the heterozygous and homozygous condition

2. Recessive; applied to an allele that in a diploid organsim is only fully expressed in the homozygous condition, it is marked in the heterozgous condition

3. Allele; One of the forms of a gene which in eukaroytes occupies a specific locus on a chromosome

4. Heterzygous; in a diploid organism, having two different alleles for a partcular gene

5. Homozygous; In a diploid organism, having two identical alleles for a particular gene