Exam 9: Patterns of Inheritance

Each time a person has another child,the chance that the parent passes on a given allele to a child

A recessive allele can only appear in the phenotype of an individual

When gametes are formed,the separation of alleles for one gene is unrelated to the separation of alleles for other genes.This idea is known as Mendel's law of ________.

If both copies of a given gene in an organism are identical,the organism is homozygous for that trait.

Siamese cats have dark fur on their extremities (paws,nose,ears,and the tail),while the rest of their bodies are covered with lighter hair,despite the fact that only one gene controls their coat color.Why does the coat color differ at different places on a Siamese cat's body?

Most human genetic traits are