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Hereditary characteristics pass from parents to ofspring through genes in their
gametes. Gene is the basic unit of biological information. In fact DNA stores all sorts of
biological information coded in the sequence of its bases in a linear order, and genes
are actually parts of DNA comprising its base sequences. The position of a gene on the
chromosome is called its locus.
Genes are responsible for producing startling inherited resemblences as well as
distinctive variations among generations. When these pass in the form of intact
parental combination between generations, inherited similarities are conserved; but
when these shule, mutate or juggle with each other, variations emerge. Genes form
pairs on pairs of homologous chromosomes. One member of a gene pair is located on
one homologue, and the other member on the other homologue. Partners of a gene
pair are called alleles. Each allele of a gene pair occupies the same gene locus on its
respective homologue. Both alleles on one locus may be identical, or diferent from
each other.
Phenotype is the form of appearance of a trait. Genotype is the genetic complement
i.e., the genes in an individual for a particular trait. A lower may be red or white in
colour. Flower colour is a trait and red and white are its two phenotypes. Each form
of expression is determined-by a diferent allele of the colour gene. Allele “R” is the
determiner for redness, while “r” is the determiner for whiteness
GENE POOL
Any group of interbreeding organisms of the same species that exist together in
both time and space is called a population. All the genes/alleles found in a breeding
population at a given time are collectively called the gene pool. It is the total genetic
information encoded in the total genes in a breeding population existing at a given
time.
Complete Dominance
When one allele (R) is completely dominant over the other (r), presence of the recessive
allele is functionally hidden, so the heterozygote (Rr) has the same round phenotype
as (RR) homozygote.
The contrasting pairs of alleles for all the seven characters chosen by Mendel showed
complete dominance. After Mendel, further breeding experiments were carried out
on diferent plants and animals. Many novel phenotypes and phenotypic rat tios were
observed that could not be explained on the basis of complete dominance.
Codominance
The phenotype of heterozygote is distinct in quality from those of the two homozygotes.
It is not an intermediate quantitative expression like incomplete dominance. Each allele
of the gene pair is associated with a diferent substance, e.g.,
Codominance occurs when both the alleless express independently in heterozygote;
(A|A2) and form their respective products X and Y. The codominant heterozygote
would have both substances at the same time.
Diferent alleles of a gene that are both expressed in a heterozygous condition are
called codominant.
MULTIPLE ALLELES
Gene mutations may produce many diferent alleles of a gene. Some genes may have
as many as 300 alleles. All such altered alternative forms of a gene, whose number
is more than two, are called multiple alleles. Any two of these multiple alleles can be
present in the genome of a diploid organism, but a haploid organism or a gamete can
have just one of them in its genome
Gene linkage is a physical relationship between genes. A chromosome carries
its linked genes en bloc in the form of a linkage group. The number of linkage groups
corresponds to the number of homologous pairs of chromosomes. Man has 23 linkage
groups. Genes for colour blindness, haemophilia, gout etc form one linkage group on
human X - chromosome.