Comprehension Questions
Section 5.1
Question 5.1
How do incomplete dominance and codominance differ?
Question 5.2
What is incomplete penetrance and what causes it?
Section 5.2
Question 5.3
What is gene interaction? What is the difference between an epistatic gene and a hypostatic gene?
Question 5.4
What is a recessive epistatic gene?
Question 5.5
What is a complementation test and what is it used for?
Section 5.3
Question 5.6
What characteristics are exhibited by a cytoplasmically inherited trait?
Question 5.7
What is genomic imprinting?
Question 5.8
What is the difference between genetic maternal effect and genomic imprinting?
Question 5.9
What is the difference between a sex-influenced gene and a gene that exhibits genomic imprinting?
Section 5.4
Question 5.10
What characteristics do you expect to see in a trait that exhibits anticipation?
Section 5.5
Question 5.11
What are continuous characteristics and how do they arise?
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