In a diploid organism, there are three different alleles for a particular gene. Of these three alleles, one is recessive and the other two alleles exhibit codominance. How many phenotypes with this set of alleles?
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Oct 25, 2017
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Explanation:
This problem is similar to the problem of blood types. In blood types there are three possible alleles. Two are codominate A and B. One is recessive O . These results in four possible phenotypes
AB = AB
AA = A
AO = A
BB = B
BO = B
OO = O
This gives four possible phenotypes.