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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited condition that follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. Even if you don’t have sickle cell anemia, you could be a carrier of the gene for it. Sickle cell ...
Terms like "autosomal recessive" and "dominant" are frequently tossed around, and you've probably heard them. But what does any of that really mean regarding the traits that children inherit from ...
There’s no simple answer, because genetics is complicated and many traits — such as eye colour — are influenced by many genes Why are some genes dominant? Such as those for brown eyes over blue eyes, ...
Much of what you look like comes from a combination of your parents’ DNA. Your hair’s texture and color are no exception. Genetic information that’s embedded in your body creates a formula for what ...
Do you have a colorful object that jumps out a little too much in your living room? Or a wall that weirdly fades into the background in your bedroom? Do you have all of the wrong colors grabbing ...
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) exists in two variants, which are inherited in different ways, named autosomal dominant PKD (ADPKD) as opposed to autosomal recessive (ARPKD). Apart from this obvious ...
Populations live in rapidly changing environments – droughts come and go, food sources change, human activities reshape habitats. For scientists, this raises a fundamental puzzle: How do populations ...
As Mendel observed over a century ago, the manifestation of a phenotype can crucially depend on the dominant–recessive relationship between alleles at a given locus. A study of plant ...