Introduction to Genetics
Genetic testing as we know it is a product of the modern age. However, humanity has been practicing genetic analysis in one form or another for thousands of years: breeding livestock, cultivating crops, and noticing that children tend to resemble their parents. Whether it's colour, height, shape or some other...
Read moreDifferent Inheritance Patterns
Below is a list of examples for the different genetic combinations that can be created during breeding. Here, ‘wt’ represents the normal allele (wild-type), and ‘mut’ represents the mutant allele. The given percentages are the chances that each individual offspring has on obtaining a particular genotype. The actual phenotype of...
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Different mutations have different modes of inheritance, depending on how many affected alleles need to be present in an animal to cause the clinical features linked to that mutation. Explanations of the different modes of inheritance are given below. In these examples, 'wt’ represents the normal (wild-type) allele, and ‘mut’...
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