Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heterozygous condition in which both alleles at a gene locus are fully expressed in the phenotype.
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- noun genetics A condition in which both
alleles of a gene pair in aheterozygote are fully expressed, with neither one beingdominant orrecessive to the other.
Etymologies
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co- + dominance
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Examples
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Dominance is not the most frequent type of Mendelian inheritance; in fact it is the exception, not the rule, with codominance occurring twice as often as dominance.
How to teach about dominance Rosie Redfield 2007
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And yet, we teach dominance first and then codominance, incomplete dominance and the rest as the exceptions.
How to teach about dominance Rosie Redfield 2007
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But we like the genetic principle of codominance; and of course hybrid vigor.
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