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autosomal dominant
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Autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive
Refers to the inheritance pattern of a gene on a chromosome other than X or Y. Genes are inherited in pairs—one gene from each parent. However, the inheritance may not be equal, and one gene may overshadow the other in determining the final form of the encoded characteristic. The gene that overshadows the other is called the dominant gene; the overshadowed gene is the recessive one.

autosomal dominant
Genetics Referring to a mode of inheritance, in which the presence of only one copy of a gene of interest on one of the 22 autosomal–non-sex chromosomes, will result in the phenotypic expression of that gene; the likelihood of expressing an autosomal gene in progeny is 1:2; ♂ and ♀ are affected equally. Cf Autosomal recessive, X-linked recessive.


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Bergman of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his colleagues wanted to know whether female baboons could also discern dominance relationships between members of their own family and those of other families in the same community.
As Marler (1955b) found with chaffinches, we were sometimes able to shift the birds' dominance relationships by color manipulations.
Because every income level within the poverty critical range can be perceived as a poverty line, this dominance relationship can be further distinguished as strong dominance and weak dominance as follows: DEFINITION 1.
 
 
 
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