Important Terms

complete dominance

incomplete dominance

codominance

incomplete penetrance

penetrance

expressivity

lethal allele

multiple alleles

compound heterozygote

gene interaction

epistasis

epistatic gene

hypostatic gene

complementation test

complementation

sex-influenced characteristic

sex-limited characteristic

cytoplasmic inheritance

genetic maternal effect

genomic imprinting

epigenetics

anticipation

temperature-sensitive allele

phenocopy

discontinuous characteristic

continuous characteristic

quantitative characteristic

polygenic characteristic

pleiotropy

multifactorial characteristic